The Unknown Sex Fiend

Sex crimes, flamboyantly headlined in the press, are currently troubling both public and police. After seven months of poring over statistics and case histories, New Jersey's Commission on the Habitual Sex Offender last week issued a report. One of its main conclusions: the average citizen knows little about the scope and nature of sex crimes, but he is oversupplied with misinformation on the subject.

Some of the popular convictions which the commissioners would like to correct:

1) That the sex offender progresses to more serious sex crimes. Statistics clearly show that "progression from minor to major sex crimes is exceptional."

2) That dangerous sex criminals are usually repeaters. Actually, of all serious crime categories, only homicide shows a lower record of repeaters.

3) That sex offenders are oversexed. Most of those treated have turned out to be physically undersexed.

4) That there are "tens of thousands" of homicidal sex fiends abroad in the land. Only an estimated 5% of convicted sex offenders have committed crimes of violence.

The commission's cool, if not too reassuring, report: "Danger of murder by relative or other intimate associate is very much greater than the danger of murder by an unknown sex fiend."

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