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Published: 03 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373148-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
..., criminal justice reformers, and prison abolitionists—have run the other way. In this chapter, I examine how (largely feminist) ideas about victimization, age, and sexuality, as well as the intersections of race and criminal (in)justice have led progressives to exclude sex offenders from their purview...
Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
...The Invention of the Sex Offender While the most bizarre charges of satanic ritual abuse that convulsed communities during the 1980s have slowed, false accusations and wrongful convictions of child sexual abuse continue apace, along with ever-broader definitions and more draconian penalties...
Published: 03 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373148-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
... inequalities. This article challenges that conventional narrative through an examination of the transformation of California’s sex offender registry—the first of its kind in the nation—in the 1970s and ’80s. During this period, some gay activists, along with many other groups, did help to make the registry...
Published: 03 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373148-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
... The sexual psychopath laws are still with us. They re-emerged in the 1990s under a new rubric—“sexually violent predator” laws—in twenty states that are now incarcerating thousands of people who have already served prison terms for sex offenses. They rely on a legal fiction: that the offenders...
Published: 10 April 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478009153
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0915-3
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 01 May 2009
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392255-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9225-5
Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
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Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
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Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
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Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
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Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
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Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
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Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
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Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
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Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
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Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
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Published: 03 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373148-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
... how the overlapping sex offender, queer, and criminalization/incarceration organizing tensions provide an opportunity to reflect on the wider implications of the authors’ very local work and to build shared analysis. activism prison abolition sex offender criminalization queer politics ...
Published: 03 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373148-017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
... women, and gay men—to prison for years at a time merely for offering oral or anal sex for money. It then forced them to register as sex offenders. This article examines the powerful campaign that was launched in 2011 against the CANS law. In two short years, despite the state’s strenuous efforts...
Published: 10 April 2020
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0915-3
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By Gillian Harkins
Published: 10 April 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478009153-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0915-3