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Sexuality and the Law

Vanderbilt University Law School

1948

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Institutional And Post-Institutional Treatment Of The Sex Offender, Thomas P. Wall Jr., Chalmers P. Wylie Dec 1948

Institutional And Post-Institutional Treatment Of The Sex Offender, Thomas P. Wall Jr., Chalmers P. Wylie

Vanderbilt Law Review

The problem of the sex offender is as old as society itself. Today, as in the distant past, man is more concerned, in the first instance, with protecting himself and his loved ones from the corrupting touch of the so-called "sex- fiend" than he is with the punishment; treatment or cure of such persons. This phenomenon of social psychology still prevails in spite of the growing preachments of the doctor, psychologist, criminologist and more recently, of the lawyer prosecutor, the lawyer law-maker and the lawyer practitioner,' to the effect that the primarily desirable end of protecting society can best be …


Institutional And Post-Institutional Treatment Of The Sex Offender, Thomas P. Wall Jr., Chalmers P. Wylie Dec 1948

Institutional And Post-Institutional Treatment Of The Sex Offender, Thomas P. Wall Jr., Chalmers P. Wylie

Vanderbilt Law Review

The problem of the sex offender is as old as society itself. Today, as in the distant past, man is more concerned, in the first instance, with protecting himself and his loved ones from the corrupting touch of the so-called "sex-fiend" than he is with the punishment, treatment or cure of such persons. This phenomenon of social psychology still prevails in spite of the growing preachments of the doctor, psychologist, criminologist and more recently, of the lawyer prosecutor, the lawyer law-maker and the lawyer practitioner,' to the effect that the primarily desirable end of protecting society can best be achieved …