ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 October 1981
Page Count: 11

Sex Offenders: Diagnosis, Organicity, and Intelligence
Bonheur, HH
Senior psychologist and medical director, Forensic Psychiatry Clinic--Manhattan, New York State Supreme Court, N.Y.

Rosner, R
Senior psychologist and medical director, Forensic Psychiatry Clinic--Manhattan, New York State Supreme Court, N.Y.

(Received 26 March 1981; accepted 30 April 1981)

Abstract

This is a survey of over 60 defendants who were indicted on charges of sexual offenses in the County of New York and who were referred for comprehensive psychodiagnostic evaluation atthe psychology unit of the Forensic Psychiatry Clinic. Only a small segment of the sample was found to be suffering from organic central nervous system impairment or to be of subnormal intellectual endowment.

Keywords:
psychiatry, criminal sex offenses

Paper ID: JFS11433J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS11433J
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