From my brief survey it is clear that the whole problem of the sex offender is a most complicated one and involves many fields. All attempts at better diagnosis, treatment, and prevention will require many years of cooperative research by scientists from many different fields. There is no one over-all way of attacking the problem. Rather one must attack individual facets. It is possible to pose a series of specific questions to which there is reason to believe we can get specific answers. By setting up more and more of these researches, which will attack limited phases of the problem, and by securing answers to such phases, we can hope to be able eventually to throw these answers together and by combining them obtain a solution to this problem.Abstract Teaser