Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Table of ContentsPart 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
