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Strangers in our midst : sexual deviancy in postwar Ontario
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Strangers in Our Midst offers 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 b...
Strangers in Our Midst offers 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.
Details
- Creator
- Elise Chenier
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2008
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (315 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780802092267, 9780802094537, 9781442689220, 1442689226, 1442691514, 0802094538, 9781442691513, 0802092268
- OCLC
- ocn987938834, on1380653974, ocn594863751, ocn958514821
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Issued also in print.
- English
- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. Practices -- 4. Mad and the Bad: Treating Sexual Deviation -- 5. Sex Deviant Treatment in Ontario Prisons -- 6. Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Limits of Forensic Sexology