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- Table 1
1952 California Legislative Subcommittee Report: Cases of 40 Castrated Sex Offenders Who Did Not Reoffend Sexually
Case Prior Criminal History Instant Sexual Offense Age Castration Year Probation Year Follow‐up Years* 1 None Fondled 9‐year‐old girl 57 March 1937 July 1946 13 years 2 Intoxication Fondled/oral copulation with 6‐year‐old boy 33 February 1940 June 1944 10 years 1 month 3 None Raped 2 girls ages 11 and 16 60 June 1944 Active status 5 years 9 months 4 Burglary; lewd/lascivious behavior Raped disabled adult female 30 September 1941 Active status 8 years 6 months 5 None Masturbated 13‐year‐old boy and other boys 32 January 1938 July 1939 12 years 2 months 6 None Masturbated 12‐ and 13‐year‐old boys 26 May 1941 February 1942 8 years 10 months 7 None Attempted intercourse with daughter age 9; nonsanctioned sex acts with older daughter 48 December 1944 January 1949 5 years 3 months 8 Intoxication Exhibited self/fondled penis of 8‐year‐old boy 61 November 1941 Active status 8 years 4 months 9 Annoy/molest a child; attempted rape Fondled 14‐year‐old female 25 January 1940 August 1943 10 years 2 months 10 None Digital penetration and placing penis between legs of 12‐year‐old girl 41 November 1939 July 1944; died 4 years 8 months 11 Burglary; voyeurism; prowling Fondled private parts of 13‐year‐old girl after cutting her clothes off; nonsanctioned fondling of other girls and women 51 July 1941 July 1946 8 years 8 months 12 None Lewd/lascivious acts with 9‐year‐old boy 29 October 1941 February 1949 8 years 5 months 13 None Sodomy of 18‐year‐old male; nonsanctioned sodomy of 16‐year‐old boy 51 January 1940 November 1948 10 years 2 months 14 None Oral copulation with 15‐year‐old boy; made sexual advances to other boys 34 December 1941 December 1947 8 years 3 months 15 None Intercourse (numerous times) with 12‐year‐ old daughter 38 February 1947 Active status 3 years 1 month 16 None Oral copulation (10–15 times) with 14‐year‐ old boy 59 June 1947 Active status 2 years 9 months 17 None Fondled private parts of 9‐year‐old girl 54 September 1945 May 1946 4 years 6 months 18 None Oral copulation with 14‐year‐old boy 58 May 1939 May 1944 10 years 10 months 19 None Oral copulation with 14‐year‐old boy; nonsanctioned oral copulation with 14‐ year‐old boy 66 October 1940 March 1949 9 years 5 months 20 Lewd/lascivious behavior Masturbation of 2 boys ages 11 and 13; nonsanctioned oral copulation/sexual deviance 52 February 1948 Active status 2 years 1 month 21 None Fondled private parts/rubbed penis between legs of 8‐year‐old girl 61 March 1948 Active status 2 years 22 Robbery/assault Placed penis between legs and fondled penis of 13‐year‐old boy 25 July 1947 Active status 2 years 8 months 23 Tampering with electric lines Placed penis between thighs of 13‐year‐old boy 49 October 1947 Active status 2 years 5 months 24 Exhibitionism (to child victims) Exposed self to 9‐year‐old girl; tried to get her to fondle penis; lewd suggestions to other girls of similar age 55 June 1944 June 1948 5 years 9 months 25 Larceny Placed penis between legs of 7‐year‐old girl and ejaculated 48 February 1939 February 1944 11 years 1 month 26 Indecent exposure; disorderly conduct; lewd/dissolute Rubbed his hands on 4‐year‐old girl's vagina; kissed her vagina 44 June 1948 Active status 1 year 9 months 27 Lewd/lascivious acts; lewd/dissolute behavior Fondled, orally copulated with, and sodomized 13‐year‐old boy 52 May 1948 Active status 1 year 10 months 28 None Fondled penis of 13‐year‐old boy; non‐ sanctioned fondling of 13‐year‐old boy 38 January 1950 Active status 2 months 29 None Attempted sodomy, fondling, and oral copulation with 14‐year‐old boy 36 February 1941 Active status 9 years 1 month 30 Debauchery Placed penis against buttocks of 12‐year‐old boy; alleged to have sodomized boy 55 November 1939 Active status 10 years 4 months 31 Lewd/lascivious behavior Oral copulation with 8‐year‐old boy; placed penis between boy's legs 24 July 1941 July 1941 8 years 8 months 32 None Placed penis on 13‐year‐old daughter's vagina; incest with older daughter 38 October 1938 October 1939 11 years 5 months 33 Lewd and indecent acts; delinquency of minor Fondled penis of 14‐year‐old boy 54 April 1938 April 1940 11 years 11 months 34 None Had 10‐year‐old girl fondle his penis; nonsanctioned act of 8‐year‐old girl fondling his penis 46 February 1946 January 1950 4 years 1 month 35 None Fondled private parts of 11‐year‐old girl; nonsanctioned same acts with minor girls 72 November 1939 October 1944 10 years 4 months 36 Sodomy Oral copulation with 10‐year‐old boy; oral copulation with 16‐year‐old boy 41 September 1943 None; released after operation 6 years 6 months 37 None Had 11‐year‐old boy perform oral copulation on him several times 48 December 1943 Active status 6 years 3 months 38 None Had 5‐year‐old girl fondle his penis; placed penis in mouth of 7‐year‐old boy; exhibited self to 8‐year‐old daughter 42 October 1948 Active status 1 year 5 months 39 None Fondled daughters ages 10 and 15; attempted digital penetration; sexual intercourse with 15‐year‐old daughter 41 April 1948 Active status 1 year 11 months 40 None Digital penetration/rubbing penis between legs of 6‐year‐old girl; same with girls ages 5 and 7 years 34 February 1939 March 1942 11 years 1 month * Follow‐up period from date of orchiectomy to preliminary report date of March 1950
Study Castrated Sex Offenders Noncastrated Sex Offenders Number of Subjects Sex Crime History Prior to Current Offense Follow‐up Period Sexual Recidivism After Orchiectomy Sexual Recidivism of Noncastrates in Same Follow‐up Period Legislative Report (California, 1952)25 60 27.5%* 2 months to 13 years 0% No comparison group Bremer (Norway, 1959)31† 102 58%‡ 1 to 10 years 2.9%§ No comparison group Langelüddeke (Germany, 1963)32† 1036 84%‖ 6 weeks to 20 years 2.3% N = 685 (39.1%) Cornu (Switzerland, 1973)33† 121 76.86%‖ 5 to 35 years 7.44% N = 50 (52%) Sand et al./Stürup (Denmark, 1964,29 197228) 900 42%‖ 6 to more than 10 years 1.1% No comparison group Wille & Beier (Germany, 1989)35 99 Unclear¶ 11 years, average 3% N = 35 (46%) Hansen (Denmark, 1991)30# 21 No information More than 15 years 10%** N = 22 (36%) * Data for 40 of the 60 subjects (Table 1); one or more arrests and/or convictions.
† Data from this study reported in Heim and Hursch.23
‡ One or more incidents of sexual relapse before castration (unclear whether arrests and/or convictions).
§ For those 41 subjects observed for 5 to 10 years, 7% recidivism rate.
‖ Two or more convictions.
¶ Data unclear as to whether sexual charges reflect instant offense only, prior sex offenses, or a combination.
# Data from this study reported in Hansen and Lykke‐Olesen.27
** After two subjects took exogenous testosterone.
