As I reflected on my past, it was during my sophomore year, that I began to recognized a strong dislike to a certain group of people: sex offenders. During these years of schooling I developed an overwhelming sense of frustration and anger towards sex offenders, because I view sex offenders as monsters and serves no purpose in the community. My anger promoted by a strong sense injustice and inequality about victims of sex offenders and all the treatment they have to undergo. My experience during my Associate degrees in human services in the field placement at a domestic violence and sexual abuse center for women reinforced the cause of my anger toward sex offender. The women I served lived in constant fear their abusers, stories of several
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At the period my instinct told me to turn it down, however, I knew this opportunity will be valuable learning curve for me. In the end I decided to put my biases and hatred I had for sex offenders aside and started the project. Immediately I started, I began to experience internal self-conflict that go against my values. After hours of supervision I was ready to lead my group. During the first group meeting at my field placement the women in the group shared their son’s stories, giving a recount that caused them to be on the registry, their courts cases and their experienced as registered sex offenders. These young accusers would be placed on the registry for 25 years or life, following their convictions for crimes and mistakes they made prior to adulthood. This mother felt the punishment was too severe for the offense committed. As I reflected on the stories the women shared, I experienced similar feelings of anger as I felt in the past, but this time it was ignored by the stories of injustice these families were facing. What touched me the most was the level of abuse and stigmatization from the society these young offenders had to undergo. Many whom have to called names such as “monster” “pedophile” and even worst they been neglected by their peers and the society. As the women gave recount of their sons stories, I reflected on times when I had mentally labelled offenders with similar names, not realizing the traumas and pain these words were causing for these young men and their
At the period my instinct told me to turn it down, however, I knew this opportunity will be valuable learning curve for me. In the end I decided to put my biases and hatred I had for sex offenders aside and started the project. Immediately I started, I began to experience internal self-conflict that go against my values. After hours of supervision I was ready to lead my group. During the first group meeting at my field placement the women in the group shared their son’s stories, giving a recount that caused them to be on the registry, their courts cases and their experienced as registered sex offenders. These young accusers would be placed on the registry for 25 years or life, following their convictions for crimes and mistakes they made prior to adulthood. This mother felt the punishment was too severe for the offense committed. As I reflected on the stories the women shared, I experienced similar feelings of anger as I felt in the past, but this time it was ignored by the stories of injustice these families were facing. What touched me the most was the level of abuse and stigmatization from the society these young offenders had to undergo. Many whom have to called names such as “monster” “pedophile” and even worst they been neglected by their peers and the society. As the women gave recount of their sons stories, I reflected on times when I had mentally labelled offenders with similar names, not realizing the traumas and pain these words were causing for these young men and their