There are many people who fall or put themselves on the wrong side of the law in many places.
There are also many reasons for this.
But you do not seem concerned with crime in general, (most of which is conflict over resources,) but only with sex-related crimes.
A not unreasonable comment from the police POV: and it was probably a response to a question along the lines of: “What are you doing to protect us from…?” which is what the police are expected to do and, of course, cannot do.
No, I do not believe that is the case. We each draw our lines according to our specific role in the situation being considered. A man with a teen-aged daughter will a draw a much tighter line than a man with no children; an urban paranoid will draw different lines from a laid-back farmer; a policeman draws them in accord with his own duties, powers and experience.
Sure, but they’re thin, crossable, incremental lines. There is no action that was not preceded by a plan; no plan that was not preceded by an intention; no intention that was not preceded by a thought; no thought that was not preceded by a desire. Since establishing “motive” is one of the factors in successful prosecution, tracing a criminal act back to its inception is logical from the legal perspective.
Incidentally, viewing images is already an act, and a premeditated act, if the perv had to seek them out; it’s also complicity in the overt crime of creating and disseminating child pornography.
Fault is rarely the issue for the victims, or the victim’s and potential victims’ parents. Once the perv is contained, you can debate which bin to keep him in.
In America, jail seems to be people’s default reaction to every societal problem.
I see something much more worrisome than ‘crime’ in that statistic.
Sounds like about 49%. And it can’t have been all that many ‘dumb bitches’ saying this. I have to wonder about your massive overreaction.
Let’s call it Australia. Only, now, it would have to be a distant planet. And you’d have to make sure it was uninhabited and you never send women there, because they’d be raped in the first three minutes, and any who survived would bear children, who would soon become prey in turn…
Or, you could examine your society for the causes of all the dysfunction.
Who’s been running it - and generally making women shut up for 30,000 years?
Shouldn’t we wonder how the world turned into a pile of shit?