Policing Sex by Johnson, Paul [Editor]; Dalton, Derek [Editor];

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New. This collection focuses attention on an important but academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing: the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in relation to violent and abusive sexual crimes (from child sexual abuse to adult rape) very little public or scholarly attention is paid to the policing of consensual sexual practices in contemporary societies. Whilst `sexual life' is commonly understood to be a matter of `private life' that is beyond formal social control, this book shows that policing is implicated in the regulation of a wide range of consensual sexual practices. This book brings together a well known and respected group of academics, from a range of disciplines, to explore the role of the police in shaping the boundaries of that aspect of our lives that we imagine to be most intimate and most our own. The volume presents a `snap shot' of policing in respect of a number of… Read More

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Routledge, 2012. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 256 pages. 9.17x6.18x0.47 inches.