There needs to be an adjustment of current laws to include, on legal registers, for life, all people who are known to be a risk to others: Not just a register of child molesters, but also of partner - assaulters, and of those who are known to be violent to anyone, during times when they have taken alcohol or substances. Also, those who, due to their mental health issues, cannot prevent themselves being a danger.
Correctly, the law already assumes that, for paedophiles, the inclination to carry out that one type of sexual / power exploitation will not suddenly vanish. Hence, the life-long register, and the ability to set restrictions based on the assumption the offender will be a life-long risk, if given the opportunity.
Incorrectly, the law still assumes that every other type of offender, with an inclination to carry out the whole range of personal harms, will be 'cured' by locking up, either in a prison or a mental hospital, then releasing.
For at least a thousand pounds a week, per offender, the cage - then - release system cannot be continued at all, let alone applied to every dangerous person, for a lifetime.
Modern medication can be administered, like long term contraceptives, by implant.
That way, nobody, including those with mental illness or mental disorders, or with a wish to take alcohol or substances, or an over - excitement involving a harmful fetish or fantasy, and so on, will forget to take medicine. Nor will they be able to decline to take behaviour - modifying prescriptions, to remove impulses.
Just as some people can take doses of drugs to prevent them being interested in over - eating, others can take drugs which make alcohol unattractive, and there are modern versions of the old fashioned 'bromide' to reduce sexual urges.
Offenders will not wish to take the medicines they need*, and / or they may be unable to remember each dose, so implants are the best solution for all concerned.
(As with the contraceptive implants, the doses are miniscule when delivered directly into the blood stream, instead of trying to be absorbed in the digestive tract, therefore it is medically preferable, as well as convenient, for those taking the drugs)
Those who 'kick - off' with sudden violence can be treated with drugs to make them apathetic, to lower testosterone, and to make them extremely passive. This medicinal restraint (by long lasting implant) is in their own interests, as well as everyone else's, because, unrestrained, they may do extreme harm while being legally 'of unsound mind'.
Modern tracking systems can if necessary be implanted, but can invariably be body - worn. A probation - style set of restriction could be enforced cheaply, for life, without prison or a mental hospital.
Modern filming and tracking and monitoring systems could effectively control freedom of movement and association, and remove opportunity for harm, all by remote means.
If it was deemed reasonable for the person to go to a workplace, at certain times by certain routes, it would be recorded that no other destination was substituted.
If it was a condition that no children, and / or no women, should be in the offender's home, or be alone near the offender, then the absence of children, or of women, during each 24 hours, could be seen on film.
The scrutiny would be as close as any in prison or a mental hospital, and life - long, unless there was exceptional reason to apply to vary the conditions. But A.I. could scan, virtually free, and could alert police in event of any breaches.
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- *One of the multiple absurdities of trying to maintain historic methods of incarceration, and 'treatment', is that prisoners and mental patients, and those on probation, are NOT given their medication by implant, therefore they have both motive and opportunity to injure staff who attempt to give pills or injections.