Mental Defectives And Sexual Offenders, Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare
by New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders
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- Author
- New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders
- Title
- Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health
- Credits
- Produced by Jonathan Ah Kit, Cori Samuel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
- Subject
- Mental health laws -- New Zealand
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 18932
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18932
- Release Date
- July 29, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.1925. NEW ZEALAND. — MENTAL DEFECTIVES AND SEXUAL OFFENDERS. — REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY APPOINTED BY THE HON. SIR MAUI POMARE, K.B.E., C.M.G., MINISTER OF HEALTH. — CONTENTS.
- 2.PART I.—INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL. — Section 1.—Origin and Scope of Inquiry. — Section 2.—Two Distinct Questions.
- 3.PART II.—PROBLEM OF THE FEEBLE-MINDED. — Section 1.—A Menace to Modern Civilization. — Section 2.—Heredity v. Environment. — Section 3.—Illustrative Cases of Hereditary Degeneracy. — The Juke Family. — The Kallikak Family. — New Zealand Cases. — Section 4.—Elements of the Problem. — Section 5.—Estimates as to Numbers of Mental Defectives. — Section 6.—Study of Feeble-minded and Delinquent Children. — Methods employed in other Countries. — Section 7.—Method of dealing With Mental Defectives in New Zealand. — Present Legal Provision for Notification and Education of Feeble-minded Children, and for Care of Custodial Feeble-minded Adults and Children. — Section 8.—Children's Courts. — Section 9.—Policy for the Future. — Proposed Eugenic Board. — Section 10.—The Question of Sterilization. — Section 11.—Segregation. — Section 12.—The Question of Expense. — Section 13.—Immigration. — Section 14.-summary of Findings and Recommendations.
- 4.PART III.—SEXUAL OFFENDERS. — Section 1.—Scope and Origin of the Inquiry. — Section 2.—Seriousness of the Evil. — Section 3.—Types of Offences. — Section 4.—Suggested Remedies. — Sterilization and Desexualization. — Castration (Desexualization). — Section 5.—Scientific Treatment and Segregation with Indeterminate Sentence. — Section 6.—Summary of Recommendations. — Concluding Remarks.
- 5.APPENDIX. — PAST MISTAKES IN IMMIGRATION. — Extract from Report on Hospitals and Charitable Institutions of the Colony, 1888, by the late Dr. Macgregor, Inspector-General.
- 6.THE HEALTH OF SCHOOL-CHILDREN. — Extract from the Report of the Director of the Division of School Hygiene, 1924.
- 7.SEXUAL OFFENDERS IN NEW ZEALAND. — TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF SEXUAL OFFENDERS SENTENCED UNDER THE RESPECTIVE HEADINGS IN NEW ZEALAND PRISONS AS ON 31ST AUGUST, 1924. — CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND ATTEMPTED CARNAL KNOWLEDGE. — SOME ILLUSTRATIVE HISTORIES. — Case No. 1. — Case No. 2. — Case No. 3. — Case No. 4. — Case No. 5. — Case No. 6.
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