Description
Springfield: Illinois, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1957
Bound in brown cloth, 24 x 16 cm, 340 pages. English. No illustrations.
Interesting volume from the Police Science Series, dealing with all kinds of sex related crimes and perversions. Remarkably kind.
A good copy, spine a but browned, minor foxing to the book block.
Contents
Chapter
I. The Perversion and the Norm 3
Reference 16
II. The Homosexual and His “World” 17
References 35
III. “The Life” at Anchor 36
“Gay” Glossary 47
IV. The “Life” and the “Road” 50
V. Transvestism: “Nature’s Cruel Paradox”
Reference 78
VI. Pyromania: “The Flame of Passion” 100
References 101
The Remorseless Ego 122
Sado-masochism: “Trial by Cruelty” 123
References 134
IX. Fantasy Finds a Victim 153
References 154
X. The Lust Murderer: “Mutilation Madness” 205
XI. Fetishism: “The Insatiable Substitution” 207
References 237
Pedophilia, Necrophilia, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism , 258
References 272,
The Sex Offender Looks at Himself 274
A Preoccupation with Sex 276
The Rueful Rapist 280
A Case of Asocial Sexuality 284
The Unhappy Stepchild 287
The “Sex Fiend” 292
No sense of Taboo 296
The Fatalist 300
Identification with the Female Role 303
The Sorrowful Sodomist 308
The All-Round Criminal 313
Summary 318
References 322
The Kinsey Report: A Review 329
Index 333
A psycho-cultural examination of the causes, nature and criminal manifestations of sex perversions.
A Monograph in the POLICE SCIENCE SERIES
Edited by V. A. Leonard
Professor of Police Science
and Administration
The State College of WashingtonJAMES MELVIN REINHARDT
M.A., Ph.D.
Professor of Criminology
University of Nebraska
Brings to the interested intelligent
reader the facts of modern scientific
research and observation in a long
misunderstood field of abnormal
behavior.From THE AUTHOR’S
CASE INVESTIGATIONS
AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIESAs a book, it meets all the tests for
fine scholarship and yet it is remark-
able for ease of reading. Written in
clear, concise style and in readily
understandable form, it represents
a masterly analysis of sex perver-
sions and the criminal behavior
patterns associated with them.CHARLES C THOMAS • PUBLISHER
Springfield, Illinois
