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| Other authors / contributors: | Michigan. Governor's Study Commission on the Deviated Criminal Sex Offender.
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| Notes: | Restrictions unspecified
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| Summary: | "From time to time, in all civilized cities and communities, public interest is aroused in the always present problem of crimes that are committed because the criminals are sexually abnormal. Usually this interest is created by some particularly serious and often revolting crime, or by a number of less dramatic offenses occurring within a short space of time. It is nearly always true that this public interest, insofar as it concerns doing something about the problem, is short lived. There are several reasons why this is true. The chief of these reasons is that it makes everyone uncomfortable to realize that such crimes can happen. It is so very difficult for the average man or woman to understand what can be the motives behind the criminal acts that he or she becomes confused, and everyone dislikes to keep on thinking about anything that confuses him. Before the cause of leprosy or tuberculosis was known, little was accomplished in preventing or curing them. Even after medical scientists did understand much about their causes and realized the social and environmental factors that were important in their spread, the progress of the control of these diseases was still slow. But when more and more people were made aware of what the doctors knew, then progress became rapid"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
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| Other form: | Print version: Hartwell, Samuel W., 1882- Citizens' handbook of sexual abnormalities and the mental hygiene approach to their prevention. [Lansing, 1950]
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