ABSTRACT
The limitation! 01 Punishment THE shortcomings and deficiencies of the penological system are never more thoroughly demonstrated than in relation to the treatment of those guilty of sexual perversions. For centuries the State has adopted and it still adopts methods which are not only calculated to prevent all possibility of reformation, but which are also, in many instances, likely to develop the existent anomaly. Thus the homosexual is confined under conditions where there is danger of homosexual vice developing in heterosexual individuals even without the excitatory influence of a homosexual presence; and the masochist is placed in an environment which is almost sure to lead to an extension of his particular aberration.
