“…There have been a number of investigators who have studied the characteristics of child molesters and attempted to categorize them into groups on the basis of age (Mohr, 1962;Mohr & Turner, 1967;Mohr, Turner & Ball, 1962;Mohr, Turner & Jerry, 1964), adequacy of social skills (Cohen, Seghorn, & Calmas, 1969) or a combination of victim type and presumed etiology (Gebhard et al, 1965;McCaghy, 1967;. Unfortunately, these studies have not shown their categorizations to be related to treatment variables or subsequent recidivism.…”