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Author Chenier, Elise Rose, 1967-

Title Strangers in our midst : sexual deviancy in postwar Ontario / Elise Chenier
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 294, [5] pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Series Studies in gender and history
Studies in gender and history.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-288) and index
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Subject Sex crimes -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century
Paraphilias -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century
Sex offenders -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century
Paraphilias -- Treatment -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century
Sex and law.
Sex.
Sexual Behavior
sexuality.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sexual Abuse & Harassment.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Paraphilias
Sex
Sex and law
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
Ontario
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008276501
ISBN 9781442689220
1442689226
9781442691513
1442691514