Policing Sex

ISBN 10: 0415668069 / ISBN 13: 9780415668064

Published by Routledge, 2012

About this Item

Editor(s): Johnson, Paul; Dalton, Derek. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFMP; JHBK5; JKV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316. . 2012. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Policing Sex
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415668069
• ISBN 13: 9780415668064
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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. Whilst ‘sexual life’ is commonly understood to be a matter of ‘private life’ that is beyond formal social control, this book shows that policing is implicated in the regulation of a wide range of consensual sexual practices. This book brings together a well known and respected group of academics, from a range of disciplines, to explore the role of the police in shaping the boundaries of that aspect of our lives that we imagine to be most intimate and most our own. The volume presents a ‘snap shot’ of policing in respect of a number of diverse areas – such as public sex, pornography, and sex work – and considers how sexual orientation structures police responses to them. The authors critically examine how policing is implicated in the social, moral and political landscape of sex and, contrary to the established rhetoric of politicians and criminal justice practitioners, continues to intervene in the private lives of citizens.

It is essential supplementary reading for courses in criminology, law, policing, sociology of deviance, gender and sexuality, and cultural studies.

About the Author

Paul Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of York. His current research focuses on the relationship between law, sexuality and social control.

Derek Dalton is Senior Lecturer at the Flinders University Law School in Adelaide, Australia where he teaches in the Criminal Justice programme. His research interests cluster around the historic criminalization of homosexuality and contemporary issues surrounding the policing of sexual conduct in public.