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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790367903321

Titolo

Policing sex / / edited by Paul Johnson and Derek Dalton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-32314-7

1-280-68213-2

9786613659071

0-203-12073-6

1-136-32315-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Classificazione

SOC004000

Altri autori (Persone)

DaltonDerek

JohnsonPaul

Disciplina

306.7

Soggetti

Sex - Social aspects

Social control

Vice control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The contemporary landscape of policing sexuality -- pt. 2. Policing 'public' sex -- pt. 3. Policing 'pornography' -- pt. 4. Policing and the 'sex industry'.

Sommario/riassunto

"This collection focuses attention on an important but academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing: the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in relation to violent and abusive sexual crimes (from child sexual abuse to adult rape) very little public or scholarly attention is paid to the policing of consensual sexual practices in contemporary societies. In the context of social and cultural change "sexual life" is largely understood as a matter of "private life," policing plays an active part in regulating consensual sexual practices across a number of areas.This book brings together a well known and respected group of academics to explore the role of the police in shaping the boundaries of that aspect of contemporary life that we imagine to be most private and most our own, uniting scholars



from a range of disciplines. It is essential supplementary readings for courses in criminology, law, policing, sociology of deviance, gender and sexuality, and cultural studies. "--