[Sexual and nonsexual crimes of patients institutionalized for treatment of sex offenses].

The authors compare the sexual and non-sexual criminality of five of the most frequent diagnostic groups of patients having sexuological in-patient treatment: homosexual delinquents, sexual aggressors, delinquents with polymorphous deviate activities, heterosexual peadophils and exhibitionists. The large number of individuals prosecuted for non-sexual crimes in the group (42%) is surprising, although in all diagnostic groups non-sexual delinquency of patients is lower than sexual delinquency. In the sexual sphere the criminal relapse rate is higher in patients with deviant activity (exhibitionists, sexual aggressors and polymorphous deviant subjects), in the non-sexual sphere in patients with deviations as regards the object (in particular in homosexuals). The results provide evidence of the necessity of more widely conceived provisions within the framework of the therapeutic and preventive approach to this type of patients.