Sorting sexualities : expertise and the politics of legal classification / / Stefan Vogler [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Vogler Stefan
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : The University of Chicago Press, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 345.73/025336
• Soggetto topico: Sex and law - United States; Sex offenders - United States; Sexual minorities - Classification - Social aspects - United States; Gay political refugees - United States; Evidence, Expert - United States; Justice, Administration of - United States
• Note generali: Also issued in print: 2021.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1: Kissing Cousins: Queerness, Crime, and the Politics of Knowing -- 2: Seeing Sexuality Like a State -- 3: Forensic Psychology, Complicit Expertise, and the Legitimation of Law -- 4: Insurgent Expertise and the Hybrid Network of LGBTQ Asylum -- 5: Asylum Seekers and Signs of Queerness -- 6: Sex Offenders and the Detection of Deviance -- 7: Queer Subjects and the Construction of Risky Countries -- 8: Sexual Predators and the Constitution of Dangerous Individuals -- Conclusion: Sexuality, Science, and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1: Static-99R Coding Form -- Appendix 2: Methodology -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Sorting Sexualities' analyzes how legal and scientific institutions work together to reify and regulate sexual subjects in highly gendered and racialized ways. Using legal and discursive analysis, interviews with legal and scientific actors, and multi-sited ethnographic observations, it demonstrates that attempts to classify sexual 'others' naturalize social differences along the lines of sexuality and simultaneously legitimate differential forms of social control and legal regulation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sorting sexualities
• ISBN: 0-226-77693-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910554244403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Chicago scholarship online.