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Strangers in our midst : sexual deviancy in postwar Ontario /

Strangers in Our Midst offers an original critical analysis of the rise of sexological thinking in Canada, and shows how what was conceived as a humane alternative to traditional punishment could be put into practice in inhumane ways.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chenier, Elise Rose, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.
Colección:Studies in gender and history.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Theories
  • 1. Criminal Sexual Psychopathy: The Birth of a Legal Concept
  • 2. Social Citizenship and Sexual Danger
  • 3. Surveying Sex: The Royal Commission on the Criminal Law Relating to Criminal Sexual Psychopaths
  • pt. 2. Practices
  • 4. Mad and the Bad: Treating Sexual Deviation
  • 5. Sex Deviant Treatment in Ontario Prisons
  • 6. Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Limits of Forensic Sexology.