The offender in each of the 2,274 cases of offenses in the present study “has been legally convicted as the result of an overt act, committed by him for his own immediate sexual gratification, which is contrary to the prevailing sexual mores of the vicinity in which he lives and/or is legally punishable.” Some of [...]

The final settlements of criminal cases may be divided into those that involved imprisonment and those that did not. Of those involving imprisonment a further division may be made into (1) shorter imprisonment, usually in minimum or medium custody institutions, and (2) longer imprisonment, usually in maximum or medium custody institutions. For practical purposes we [...]

An examination of the specifically sexual aspects of marriage reveals that the aggressors vs. adults and minors are more inclined toward protracted precoital play than any other groups—for 36 to 37 per cent of them foreplay lasted for an average of a half hour or more. The incest offenders vs. children rank third with 30 [...]

It has often been maintained that one of the parents’ obligations is the imparting of sex information to their children. This is an obligation that most parents would prefer to avoid, but no one is available to whom to transfer the task. Through timidity, a feeling of incompetence, and exaggerated response to small but vocal [...]

The exhibitionists were neither the youngest nor the eldest in the family, nor did they tend to be only children. In any such measurement they are intermediate. Between ages fourteen and seventeen they had a rather poor relationship with their fathers, being inferior in this respect to the control and prison groups and to most [...]