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Sex and Crime



December 2020 | 408 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, sensitively confronting topics such as nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. To explain how sex and crime is composed by, and composes, our understanding of these issues, this book:

  • Draws on the authors’ research expertise, insightful case studies, and leading scholarship from across the globe.
  • Develops students’ capacity to engage thoughtfully with diverse problems and to think critically, this is achieved with the help of creative learning exercises, empathetic questioning, and relevant illustrative examples.
  • Encourages readers to be reflexive, open-spirited, and curious about how issues of sex and crime touch their lives and those of people around them.
 
Part One: Encountering Sex and Crime
 
Chapter One: Introduction
 
Chapter Two: Theory: How to think about sex and crime
 
Chapter Three: Sex and crime in time and space
 
Part Two: State, sex, and crime
 
Chapter Four: Consent and its discontents
 
Chapter Five: Sex and institutional cultures of abuse
 
Chapter Six: Reproduction, sex and crime
 
Chapter Seven: Sexual exploitation and the State
 
Chapter Eight: Sex and war
 
Part Three: Sex, cultures, and crime
 
Chapter Nine: Pleasurable risk
 
Chapter Ten: Sex and disability
 
Chapter Eleven: Digital sex
 
Chapter Twelve: Children, sexualisation and the law
 
Chapter Thirteen: Illegal representations
 
Part Four: Future Sex
 
Chapter Fourteen: The Future
 
Chapter Fifteen: How to change your life: hope, love, anger and other unlikely revolutionaries
 
Glossary
 
Bibliography

This book delivers an insightful examination of the link between sex and the presumption and assumption of criminal activity.

Mx David Metcalfe
Policing, Chester University
September 26, 2022

This book develops underpinning knowledge and theory around the contemporary issues of sex and crime.

Mr Mark Jagus
Law, Derby College
March 2, 2021

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