Our latest Freakonomics broadcast episode is known as sex that is“Making Pay — and Pay and Pay and Pay.” (it is possible to contribute to the podcast at iTunes or somewhere else, have the rss, or pay attention through the news player above. You can browse the transcript, which include credits for the songs you’ll notice in the episode.)
The gist with this episode: certain, intercourse crimes are horrific, additionally the perpetrators deserve to be punished harshly. But culture keeps costs that are exacting out-of-pocket and otherwise — long after the jail phrase is served.
This episode ended up being encouraged (as much of our most readily useful episodes are) by an email from the podcast listener. His name is Jake Swartz:
And so I just completed my M.A. in forensic therapy at John Jay and began an internship in an innovative new city … we spend most of my times spending time with lovely individuals like rapists and pedophiles. Inside my internship, I mainly do treatment (both group and person) with convicted intercourse offenders plus it made me recognize being an intercourse offender is just an idea that is terriblein addition to the apparent reasons). It is economically disastrous!