Sex Panic and the Punitive State
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Roger N. Lancaster
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-15 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually bas
Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Chrysanthi S. Leon
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-22 - Publisher: NYU Press

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From sex fiend laws to Jessica's Law, every state regularly passes popular tough-on-crime legislation, often written after highly-publicized cases have made the
Another Country
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Scott Herring
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06 - Publisher: NYU Press

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'Another Country' expands the possibilities of queer studies beyond the city limits, investigating the lives of rural queers across the United States, from faer
What We Don't Talk About
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Joann Wypijewski
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-02 - Publisher: Verso Books

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An exquisite examination of a sexual culture in crisis What if we took sex out of the box marked “special,” either the worst or best thing that a human pers
The Feminist War on Crime
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Aya Gruber
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-26 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Many feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law i