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Strangers in Our Midst : Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (315 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442689220
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Strangers in Our MidstDDC classification:
  • 364.15360971309045
LOC classification:
  • HV6593.C2.C446 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: 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 -- PART TWO: PRACTICES -- 4 The Mad and the Bad: Treating Sexual Deviation -- 5 Sex Deviant Treatment in Ontario Prisons -- 6 Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Limits of Forensic Sexology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Illustrations.
Summary: Strangers in Our Midstoffers 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: 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 -- PART TWO: PRACTICES -- 4 The Mad and the Bad: Treating Sexual Deviation -- 5 Sex Deviant Treatment in Ontario Prisons -- 6 Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Limits of Forensic Sexology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Illustrations.

Strangers in Our Midstoffers 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.

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