Abstracts
| DOI | 10.1177/000486586900200319 |
| Published date | 01 September 1969 |
| Date | 01 September 1969 |
Abstracts
A
New
Psychosexual
Syndrome-"Ecou-
teurism"
(1968). Mai, F.M.M., Aust.N.Z.J.
Psychiat.
g261-3
THE
patient
was
an unmarried
man
of 32
years. He
was
referred for a psychiatrie
opinion as he
was
on
acharge
of being
"unlawfully on premises."
Apart
from
minor traffic offenees,
there
was
no
past
record
of criminal behaviour.
The
gist of
the
problem
was
that
he derived sexual
satisfaction from secretly tape-recording
and playing
back
the
sounds emanating
from afemale toilet. It is suggested by the
author
that
phenomenological
and
psycho-
pathological evidence would indicate
that
this condition is analogous to "voyeur-
lsm".
The
name of ecouteurism has been
advanced for this particular sexual devi-
ation.
The Personality Tratts of Tattooed
Adolescent Offenders (1969). Verberne,
T. J. P., Brit.J.Criminol. 9172-175.
INCIDENTAL to a
study
of the adjustment
of adolescent boys to
their
detention in a
Victorian
State
training centre,
data
were
collected on
the
incidence of
tattoos
in
eighty cases (26 tattooed)
where
sublects
had also filled
out
aself-report personality
questionnaire (Form A of the IPAT High
School personality questionnaire which
measures
fourteen personality
traits
in
the
12-18
year
age range), Comparing the
observed
with
the predicted differences,
it is seen
that
there is a
trend
(at
the
5
per
cent. level of significance) for
the
tattooed
boys to be insecure and to have
depressive tendencies (Factor 0
+),
to be
"tough-minded" (Factor 1-),
and
to like
group action (Factor J-).
With
the
excep-
tlon, perhaps, of the
trend
on
Factor
0
ünsecurlty. depressive tendency),
the
findings
appear
to
give little support for
the identity hypothesis.
Periodie Detention in New
Zealand
(1969).
Seymour, J. A., Brit.J.Crirninol. 9182-187.
A SENTENCE of periodic detention to a
"work
centre"
was
first legislated in New
Zealand in 1962 as an amendment to the
Criminal Justice Act for offenders aged
between
15
and 21 years. Later amending
legislation made
the
sanction applicable
to adults. This Note is simply
an
outline
of the Jegislation
that
created
the
sentence
and
adescription
of its operation in
Auckland.
The
Note comments
that
the
order
made
by
the
Auckland courts is:
"That
the
defendant
place himself in
the
custody of
the
warden
. . . for forty hours on one
such occasion (the weekend period) in
each
week
and four hours on
any
other
such occasion in
each
week as
may
be
specified by
the
warden"
but no period in
any one
week
is to be Ionger
than
60
hours
and
should avoid interference
with
attendance at school or
work
or genuine
religious observance.
Work
is done both
within and outside
the
work
centre, the
outside
work
to be
"at
any
hospital,
charitable or educational Institution, at
the horne of any old, inflrm, or handi-
capped person, or at
any
institution for
old, infirm, or handicapped persons, or
on
any
Crown
or public body land . . .
No
wages
are
payable to offenders for
the
work done by them.
The Auckland
work
centre
for
adolescents is described and
note
Is made
of
the
fact
that
the centre for
adults
only
opened on April Ist, 1967, and so
has
not
yet a fully developed programme.
Aleoholism as a Selt-Limitlng Disease
(1968), Drew, L. R. H. Quart.J.Stud.Alc.
29 956-967.
ALTHOUGH
there
have been suggestions
that
perhaps
a few alcoholics
may
be able
to
return
to normal social drinking
the
general notion is to accept alcoholism as
an irreversible condition with a
poor
treat-
ment
prognosis. The
author
suggests
that
Victorian figures demonstrate
that
"pre-
dicted prevalence and actual prevalence do
approximate each other, but only until the
age of 40
years
is reached,
after
which the
actual prevalence increasingly falls below
the predicted prevalence with increasing
age", The question is asked "How can
this disappearance of alcoholism
with
increasing age be explained?" Possible
answers such as mortality and chronic
morbidity, the beneficial results of treat-
ment, and
the
offender population are
considered
but
reiected as effectively
answering
the
question. It is suggested
that
"A process of 'spontaneous recovery'
probably accounts for a quite significant
proportion of alcoholics who
cease
to
appear
in alcoholism statistics as
their
age
increases". It is noted
that
this
answer
is by no means
new
and novel: such a
proposition has been canvassed before by
such as Magnus Huss (1849),
Amark
(1949)
and Moore (1964). If such a point of view
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