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Autore: |
Chenier Elise Rose <1967->
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Titolo: |
Strangers in our midst : sexual deviancy in postwar Ontario / / Elise Chenier
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Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008 |
©2008 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina: | 364.15/30971309045 |
Soggetto topico: | Sex crimes - Ontario - History - 20th century |
Paraphilias - Ontario - History - 20th century | |
Sex offenders - Ontario - History - 20th century | |
Paraphilias - Treatment - Ontario - History - 20th century | |
Sex and law | |
Sex | |
Soggetto geografico: | Ontario |
Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
Electronic books. | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Strangers in our midst ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4426-9151-4 |
1-4426-8922-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809599003321 |
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