MISCELLANEOUS HETEROSEXUAL OFFENDERS
This is a heterogeneous category consisting of 31 males who were convicted of offenses against females where physical sexual contact did not occur or could not be proven; exhibition, peeping, and obscene communication cases are excluded. This negative definition leaves us with a vague residuum of offenses generally labeled as contributing to the delinquency of a minor, disorderly conduct, vagrancy, loitering, etc. Since society is especially concerned with the protection of the young, it is no surprise to find that 21 of the 31 males had offended against girls under age sixteen. While official data were scant and the men not infrequently denied any carnal intentions, we felt that in all but two or three cases the males probably would have had (if they had not already had) physical contact with the girls.
The offenses ranged widely in social and psychological significance. At one extreme we find mature males attempting to instigate sexual activity with prepubescent females; at the other extreme we find an eighteen-year-old attempting to facilitate his wishes by giving his fifteen-year-old girl friend some whiskey. Here we run the gamut from an abortive child-molestation to what is nothing more than a high school escapade.
The miscellaneous heterosexual offenders do not constitute a clinical or otherwise discrete entity. Indeed, roughly two thirds of them had been convicted of other sex offenses and have therefore contributed to previous chapters in this volume. One might fairly summarize by saying that the majority of miscellaneous heterosexual offenders were like the heterosexual offenders vs. children, minors, and adults except that the offense behavior had been interrupted before sexual contact developed or that it had occurred but could not be proved. Only one of the miscellaneous offenders vs. children and minors seemed physically dangerous, but four of the ten miscellaneous offenders vs. adults previously or subsequently committed forcible rape.
After subtracting the offenders who parallel the sex offenders already described in this book, one is left with a few men whose offenses were trivial. Examples include providing alcoholic beverages to minors (with seduction in mind), keeping minors out late, and annoying women by persisting in trying to entice them into an automobile.
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