The Sexual Psychopath

Benjamin Karpman

The Journal of Criminal Law Criminology and Police Science · 1951 · 25 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

The author of this paper is the Chief Psychotherapist of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, with which institution he has been connected since 1919.As the readers of this Journal know, he had made the study of criminality his life work.He has pioneered in the study of sexual psychopathy.His first study of the problem dated back to 1923, followed thereafter by a number of studies in the field such as homosexuality, exhibitionism, incest, sado-masochism, white slavery, fetishism, rape and so on.The present study attempts to distill this experience into a formulation of the problem that may be a stimulas to others for further work.