Sex And Punishment

Author : Eric Berkowitz
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619020785
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex and Punishment written by Eric Berkowitz and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "enormously informative and entertaining” history of Western sex law which covers cases from ancient times to the 19th century (Boston Globe) The "raging frenzy" of the sex drive, to use Plato's phrase, has always defied control. However, that's not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not tried, wielding their most formidable weapon: the law. At any given point in time, some forms of sex were condoned while others were punished mercilessly. Jump forward or backward a century or two (and often far less than that), and the harmless fun of one time period becomes the gravest crime in another. Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout the millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behavior. Writer and lawyer Eric Berkowitz uses flesh–and–blood cases—much flesh and even more blood—to evoke the entire sweep of Western sex law, from the savage impalement of an ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895 for "gross indecency." The cast of Sex and Punishment is as varied as the forms taken by human desire itself: royal mistresses, gay charioteers, medieval transvestites, lonely goat–lovers, prostitutes of all stripes, London rent boys. Each of them had forbidden sex, and each was judged—and justice, as Berkowitz shows, rarely had much to do with it. With the light touch of a natural storyteller, Berkowitz spins these tales and more, going behind closed doors to reveal the essential history of human desire.

Author : Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, Death and Punishment written by Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1990 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author examines attitudes to sexuality in Britain with a special emphasis on the prudery, fear and hatred of deviance that underly those attitudes. He describes the self-hatred that often leads to persecution of homosexuals and sufferers of venereal disease, including AIDS.

Author : David M. Halperin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373149
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War on Sex written by David M. Halperin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States. This state-of-the-art collection tells a different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality, reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas, government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by means of law, surveillance, and social control. The contributors document the history and operation of sex offender registries and the criminalization of HIV, as well as highly punitive measures against sex work that do more to harm women than to combat human trafficking. They reveal that sex crimes are punished more harshly than other crimes, while new legal and administrative regulations drastically restrict who is permitted to have sex. By examining how the ever-intensifying war on sex affects both privileged and marginalized communities, the essays collected here show why sexual liberation is indispensable to social justice and human rights. Contributors. Alexis Agathocleous, Elizabeth Bernstein, J. Wallace Borchert, Mary Anne Case, Owen Daniel-McCarter, Scott De Orio, David M. Halperin, Amber Hollibaugh, Trevor Hoppe, Hans Tao-Ming Huang, Regina Kunzel, Roger N. Lancaster, Judith Levine, Laura Mansnerus, Erica R. Meiners, R. Noll, Melissa Petro, Carol Queen, Penelope Saunders, Sean Strub, Maurice Tomlinson, Gregory Tomso

Author : Eric Berkowitz
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026465
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boundaries of Desire written by Eric Berkowitz and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another. Combining meticulous research and lively storytelling, The Boundaries of Desire traces the fast–moving bloodsport of sex law over the past century, and challenges our most cherished notions about family, power, gender, and identity. Starting when courts censored birth control information as pornography and let men rape their wives, and continuing through the "sexual revolution" and into the present day (when rape, gay rights, sex trafficking, and sex on the internet saturate the news), Berkowitz shows how the law has remained out of synch with the convulsive changes in sexual morality. By focusing on the stories of real people, Berkowitz adds a compelling human element to what might otherwise be faceless legal battles. The law is made by people, after all, and nothing sparks intolerance – on the left and right –– more than sex. Ultimately, Berkowitz shows the emptiness of sanctimonious condemnation, and argues that sexual questions are too subtle and volatile for simple, catch–all solutions.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Protection and Sexual Predator Punishment Act of 1998 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Protection and Sexual Predator Punishment Act of 1998 and Related Proposals written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, Death and Punishment written by Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1990 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author examines attitudes to sexuality in Britain with a special emphasis on the prudery, fear and hatred of deviance that underly those attitudes. He describes the self-hatred that often leads to persecution of homosexuals and sufferers of venereal disease, including AIDS.

Author : Kathleen Daly
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300068665
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Crime, and Punishment written by Kathleen Daly and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are men and women who are prosecuted for similar crimes punished differently? If women are sentenced more leniently, does it vary with race and class? This work explores these issues and others by focusing on a variety of processed court cases such as homicide, robbery and drug offences.

Author : Mary Bosworth
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813539041
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Gender, and Punishment written by Mary Bosworth and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Mary Bosworth and Jeanne Flavin bring together twelve original essays by prominent scholars to examine not only the discrimination that is evident, but also the structural and cultural forces that have influenced and continue to perpetuate the current situation. Contributors point to four major factors that have impacted public sentiment and criminal justice policy: colonialism, slavery, immigration, and globalization. In doing so they reveal how practices of punishment not only need particular ideas about race to exist, but they also legitimate them.

Author : Thom Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113408319X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punishment written by Thom Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punishment is a topic of increasing importance for citizens and policymakers. Why should we punish criminals? Which theory of punishment is most compelling? Is the death penalty ever justified? These questions and many others are addressed in this highly engaging guide. Punishment is a critical introduction to the philosophy of punishment, offering a new and refreshing approach that will benefit readers of all backgrounds and interests. The first critical guide to examine all leading contemporary theories of punishment, this book explores – among others – the communicative theory of punishment, restorative justice, and the unified theory of punishment. Thom Brooks examines several case studies in detail, including capital punishment, juvenile offending, and domestic abuse. Punishment highlights the problems and prospects of different approaches in order to argue for a more pluralistic and compelling perspective that is novel and groundbreaking. Punishment is a textbook designed to introduce both undergraduate and postgraduate students to the topic of punishment. It will be essential for undergraduate students in: philosophy, criminal justice, criminology, justice studies, law, politics, and sociology.