Foreword
SIN BOOSTERS!
The girls had one thing in common: When they had first been brought to Gil's pad, they had had no idea what lay in store for them. But as Howard Jones states in Crime in a Changing Society: "There are many ways of expressing intense hostility, but one way is through violent crime. This may consist of the wanton destruction of property, or of assault, or even murder. Some psychoanalysts are now raising the question of whether, especially in the case of crimes against the person, like sexual assault and violence, the victim may not be as responsible for the offense as the person who perpetrated it. The crime, in other words, may be invited by the victim because it satisfies some unconscious wish in him. There is plenty of evidence of the existence of such symbiotic patterns. The early family experience of the rough, working-class individual is enough to account for his characteristic behavior and for his proneness to delinquency. And the very difference between his behavior and that of other groups, the clashes which his impatient and violently unstable nature brings about as he makes contact with those less driven, are more than enough to bring about antagonisms. Are not existing aggressions, the demand for material compensations, the inability to tolerate frustration, going to be greatly augmented, leading to an increase in behavior which the community calls delinquency?"