Despite the fact that our sample of homosexual offenders vs. adults comprises our most urban group they rank third in the proportion-almost one quarter—who had specifically sexual contact with animals.
The contacts seem to have been rather well distributed through earlier life rather than concentrated, since in age-specific incidence these offenders rank no higher than fifth [...]
Masturbation was a more important source of sexual outlet to the homosexual offenders than to other types of offenders, but the homosexual offenders vs. children are to some extent an exception to this generalization. In terms of accumulative incidence, the proportion who had ever experienced postpubertal masturbation by a given age are moderate, beginning with [...]
The average incest offender vs. children married shortly after his twenty-fourth birthday, rather belatedly compared to the prison group and most other sex-offender groups, but similar to the control group. About three fifths, a moderate proportion, had married once; nearly one third, a relatively large number, had married twice; and only a few had more [...]
The aggressors vs. children were older—about thirty-one—at the time of their offenses than the other aggressors, a fact in keeping with the tendency for all those who committed offenses against children to have been older than those who committed offenses against adults.
Most of the men(40 per cent) were separated, divorced, or widowed; one third were [...]
There are also a small number of males whose offense seems intimately connected with their having been seriously intoxicated. Some are chronic alcoholics. While many sex offenders, and especially those who offend against children, claim drunkenness in exoneration, in very few cases does intoxication seem to do more than simply release pre-existing desires. Even in [...]