The Criminal Law and Sexual Offenders

The Report on " The Criminal Law and Sexual Offenders prepared by the Joint Committee on Psychiatry and the Law appointed by the British Medical Association and the Magistrates Association, focuses attention upon a part, and perhaps not the most important, of the larger problem of the medical treatment of crime. It will be generally accepted that unless the matter is viewed in perspective, and by the aid of scientific discipline, conclusions may be influenced by personal bias and limited experience. At the same time, it must be admitted that we lack any reliable large scale figures to show the sizes of the clinical groups of offenders who may be suitable for psychiatric investigation and treatment?using the latter term in the wide