Our latest Freakonomics broadcast episode is known as “Making Sex Offenders Pay — and Pay and Pay and Pay.” (it is possible to contribute to the podcast at iTunes or somewhere else, obtain the rss, or pay attention through the news player above. You could browse the transcript, which include credits for the songs hear that is you’ll the episode.)

The gist with this episode: Yes, intercourse crimes are horrific, therefore the perpetrators deserve to be penalized harshly. But culture keeps exacting costs — out-of-pocket and otherwise — long after the jail phrase happens to be offered.

This episode had been motivated (as much of our most useful episodes are) by an email from the podcast listener. Their title is Jake Swartz:

Thus I just finished my M.A. in forensic therapy at John Jay and began an internship in a brand new city … we spend the majority of my times spending time with lovely individuals like rapists and pedophiles.