[Clinical and social characteristics of persons accused of committing sexual offenses].

The results of clinical statistical examination of 1.405 men responsible for sexual offences are presented. On the basis of the results obtained some data are given (which were unknown before) concerning unlawful sexual behaviour of subjects with psychic pathology, frequency and character of sexual offences in the given population; then the effect of alcoholisation and general recidivation of crimes is specified and stressed; most criminogenic social and clinical groups are singled out; and knowledge on distribution and representation of sexual pathology (perversion) in nosologic groups and in practical work of forensic psychiatrists is outlined and supplemented.