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Show Dr. Pace Speaks To Psychiatrists SAN FRANCISCO, June 7 (f.Pi Dr. Garland H. Pace of the Utah State Hospital at Provo, Utah, today to-day pleaded with psychiatrists to help educate the public to a more scientific understanding of sex offenses. Addressing the 1,000 doctors attending at-tending the American Psychiatrists' Psychia-trists' Association meeting, Dr. Pace said that hysterical denunciation denun-ciation of sex crimes and demands for drastic regengJu: act. on should be avoided. "Although sex offenders long have been considered penal cases, incarceration neither treats, prevents pre-vents nor cures them,'' he said. "The sentencing of such offenders should be under psychiatry and sociology as well as law." He said that sterilization operations oper-ations were worthless, eittier for punitive or deterrent purposes. Sex crimes, Dr. Pace said, constitute consti-tute but a small part of sexual irregularities. "The few sensational sex crimes are only a slight overflow from the great cauldron of sexual maladjustments, mal-adjustments, he said. To minimize sex crimes. Dr. Pace recommended that educational educa-tional facilities be extended to include in-clude courses on sex. After crimes of that kind have been committed, he explained, it is too late to give medical aid to the offenders. |