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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Chenier, Elise Rose, 1967-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.