We realize that certain uncontrolled variables might result in arti-factual rather than actual differences between incidental and patterned offenders. For example, being a patterned offender might in large measure be the consequence of simply being older and having had more time in which to repeat offenses. Consequently we have examined a number of variables so [...]

In our society there is a belief, so common as to constitute folklore, in the evolutionary sequence of behavior. The child who indulges in petty theft will, if unchecked, end up as a professional thief. The teenager who lights his first marijuana cigarette is on the road to becoming a heroin addict. The collector of [...]

The interesting aspect of marital coitus (and petting to orgasm in marriage) is not that it provides the greatest part of the total sexual outlet of married men, but that it provides less than most people would anticipate. The members of most of our groups derive 85 per cent or more of their outlet from [...]

Few things are guarded as closely in certain segments of Western society as the privacy of coitus. The peeper who seeks to observe sexual activity clandestinely is prosecuted, and prosecutions of parents who have allowed their children to observe them in sexual activity are also recorded. Such constraint about the privacy of sexual activity has [...]

With a few exceptions there is nothing outstanding about the heterosexual petting activities of the exhibitionists, but one exception is in the accumulative incidence figures. Only 26 per cent had petted by age twelve—the second fewest on record. By age fourteen they have risen slightly in the rank-order, but by sixteen they again occupy the [...]