Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children in Nancy's category felt insecure, played few games, and had no rewarding interests. They did not do well in school, and were not particularly popular. Cases like Nancy's are largely bred in broken or unhappy homes. And the problem of preventing sex crimes in general, say the university researchers, is the problem of mental hygiene everywhere...
...Deterrent. It would do no good to enact still harsher punitive laws, the re-searchers suggested, because the people who are going to commit sex crimes are so emotionally disturbed that they do not count the possible cost. Unhappily, there is no sure way to spot them before they go wrong. But the courts are making more use of the state's "sex-psychopath law," which provides psychiatric treatment for convicted offenders. And (except for homosexuals) they rarely repeat their offenses after they get out on parole...
...Although 31% of California's sex felonies were listed as rape cases, many were the statutory, nonviolent kind, involving teen-age girls who had already become promiscuous or actual prostitutes...
...Juvenile sex offenses are usually minor, with one notable exception: a few teenage youths use force, liquor or gang methods to subdue their victims...
...anonymous, quick intensities, and it keeps faith with its material. But about much of it there seems something straggling and merely approximate: it lacks form, it needs more expressive detail, more evocative language. And it is coarsened by Joshua Logan's direction, which often pedal-thumps the sex and placards the humor and pathos...