I have to see it as a child who has been so brutalized with no mental health help being pushed into the one direction any victim of a violent crime can and some do turn to. Jamie wouldn't see his actions as weak at all. In his mind he is now strong enough to act when even law enforcement refused to punish such heinous offenders. He has now been taught that no one cares about children who are sexually abused and he has no hope of ever stopping this from happening to others. Unless he acts out on his own.
You could easily say this was Jamie: The Making of a Serial Killer. Jamie was led to become a criminal by people who say the law is on their side but then either refuse to strictly punish sex offenders or are fed up with the terrible lack of legal grounds they can depend on stop serious crime from reoccurring.
Police get angry too when they arrest sex offenders only to see them out on the streets too soon or never punished at all. That makes their psyche a little more messed up as well. Who wants to keep picking up the broken up pieces left behind by sex offenders on a regular basis? It has to affect them in a negative way.
That was the main point of the movie. What drives some people to kill. It was one of the few movies where the killers actually murder their own offenders. Which Jamie might not have had the courage to do if not for the support he had from John. These cases are all over the place so you really cannot positively say Jamie would not eventually become a criminal. What kind of criminal based on his personality? Again, the range is too board to say this type or that kind of criminal. Maybe he wouldn't have acted out on his own at all? There is no way such horrible treatment though would not affect his life through the years. The nightmares of those horrible events are burned into his memory. Just like good memories, the bad ones pop up too often the same way a good one will. Except the bad ones do not fill you with joy or laughter. Just the ugly pain and suffering.
For those victims that block out certain details subconsciously or by choice believe me, it won't last forever. Those memories will fight hard to resurface. The good news is once they do, you can deal with whatever made you block them out in the first place which is very important to do.
Victims have to find healthy ways to channel their anger. These bad memories are why so many victims either become drug, alcohol abusers or suicide victims. Who would choose to live the rest of their lives constantly being reminded of the worst day or days of their lives? It takes a lot work to build up that kind of thick skin. Those who don't will act out in some violent way. Too often against people they believe are weak or non-threatening to them. A few see resistance as a challenge as we see in this movie. It only feeds into their rage and anger. To them it actually feels good to let out that pent up steam on someone. Anyone who reminds them of how that pain begins. Few actually go after their perpetrator. I suppose because they are afraid of being put back into that horrible situation again with them or do not feel confident that they can turn the tables on their abusers? Or they misplace their rage onto people who they feel they can hurt that will really make them feel the pain that the victim is trying to cope with in a negative way. People, families or a society they feel have wronged them in some way.
It can be a community, someone in law enforcement, there is always a reason, even it if it is more opportunity then actual stalking of a victims. Catch a victim early and they can be taught how to become a part of the solution instead of add to the problems of sexual abuse.
Again why if you don't want to see more of this kind of crime? Do people think going easy on a sex offender is fair or even just? Few dare to put themselves into that position because it takes someone who capable of such extreme cruelty to force themselves onto an innocent person. So much so that many refuse to actually put their victims into a real person scenario. They create these insane fantasies to aide them in their assaults to convince them that such an act is for them to act out upon. They must completely convince themselves that the object they are abusing is in some way consenting or numb themselves from them in such a way that they can act out this kind of crime. They are insane but not so much to not know what they are doing is wrong or cruel. Some learn to use the cruelty of the act feed their anger. It reverses in their warped minds the position of being a victim with not control to a perpetrator with complete control over their victims. Which is why they have to be locked up tight with no access to anyone they can convince themselves will be a victim to this kind of violence. It goes so far beyond just beating someone up. It is meant to destroy their victims self-worth and any thoughts that they might have that they have some control over what happens in their life. And yes, it can turn good people into monsters.
We have no one to blame but ourselves. And the hundred of excuses we like to make when it turns out to be someone that we know and why we will even break good laws to protect the criminals in our families. Because too many people cannot help it seems to not project another persons character onto themselves. You may or may not have been a culprit in making a sex offender what they have become. The how doesn't matter as much as putting that person somewhere where they will not hurt anyone like that ever again. You need to make laws that stick and punish sex offenders severely. Protecting sex offenders is insane. Preventing victims from becoming sex offenders, murderers, or ending their lives needlessly should be a priority in everyone's life.
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