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"DARK CORNERS": CHILD SEX MURDER, FORENSIC EXPERTISE, AND PROTECTIVE TREATMENT IN SOCIALIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
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The Czech system of court-ordered sexological treatment for sex offenders, which the authors say persists largely unaltered, is shown to have been consolidated in response to media and public reaction to a single 1966 killing rather than to accumulated clinical evidence — historical context for a compulsory treatment regime still in operation, but with no bearing on current evaluation or testimony.