Sex and Punishment

Author: Eric Berkowitz
Publisher: Saqi
ISBN: 1908906014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex. From the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde for 'gross indecency' in 1895, Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law. 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 and London rent boys. Each of them had forbidden sex, and each was judged – and justice, as Berkowitz shows – rarely had anything to do with it.

Sex, Death and Punishment

Author: Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
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.

The War on Sex

Author: David M. Halperin
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373149
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
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

No Mercy Here

Author: Sarah Haley
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469627604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom, black women faced a pitiless system of violence, terror, and debasement. Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley uncovers imprisoned women's brutalization in local, county, and state convict labor systems, while also illuminating the prisoners' acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy and offering alternative conceptions of social and political life. A landmark history of black women's imprisonment in the South, this book recovers stories of the captivity and punishment of black women to demonstrate how the system of incarceration was crucial to organizing the logics of gender and race, and constructing Jim Crow modernity.

Psychology of Punishment

Author: Nicholas M. Palmetti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613241158
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the psychology of punishment. Topics discussed include the social psychological models of public opinion about punishment and religious beliefs; retributive punishment for sex offenders; drug driving laws and punishment; third party reward and punishment and race, age and punishment in juvenile correctional facilities.

Punishment for Poppy

Author: Arabella Oritz
Publisher: Chimera Books
ISBN: 9781903931387
Category : Erotic stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Poppy Cavendish, a teenage orphan, is one of only a few girls made to stay at Maidenhall School during the holidays. Caught in a shameful act by a teacher who favours harsh discipline, she is surprised when her punishment spills over into unnatural love. The Headmistress and her depraved Chairman of Governors find out about this, though, and chastise her with lustful zeal. Forced into a job by them, Poppy finds herself in the clutches of a dominant couple whose hands-on training pushes her deeper into submission. Her duties include carnal acts that no decent girl should perform, but her personal drive for compliance takes her through the pain barrier and into a world of sexual intrigue. For example, what is the role of the mysterious stranger who has arranged an unwanted marriage in the Sudan for Poppy? The answer lies with the riddle of her birth, in the enclosing walls of Maidenhall School.

America's Notorious Dominatrix

Author: Charlayne Grenci
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781982082581
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Growing up, Charlayne Grenci learned to live with rejection, fear, and strict protocol. She flirted with erotica, disaster, and lived a life of rebellion and risky behavior. She worked in grey areas of the law, and consequently lost her freedom for challenging the system. In spite of her plight for 'freedom of expression', her inner power to survive and persevere gave her the imitable strength and to strive in a quest for knowledge, fame, and fortune. From a privileged, tormented childhood, coping with the temptations of adolescence, Charlayne descended into an adulthood of bizarre, sexual encounters, taboo subcultures, and decades of failed relationships. Charlayne has been frequently misunderstood by the majority, including friends, family, and occasionally by herself. Mistress Carla walked on the wild side of exploration into the dark side of human sexual behavior at her 1980's torture dungeon in Pompano Beach , Florida . Hundreds of anxious thrill-seekers living in the United States and internationally, traveled to submit and worship America 's Queen Of Domination. The famous dominatrix's clandestine business came to a shocking halt by a scandalous police raid, a witch-hunt, corrupt legal battle, and a three-ring circus trial, one of the most high-profiled, sensationalized criminal court cases in Florida 's history! Mistress Carla endured five devastating years of judicial domination, followed by a maximum jail sentence and a felony conviction as "the notorious dominatrix"!

Slavers of the Amazon

Author: Boyd Agate
Publisher: Bondage Books
ISBN: 9780955823558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
A tale of kidnap, extreme punishment and dark pleasures.

Punishment

Author: Thom Brooks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315527758
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
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 more are examined in this highly engaging and accessible 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 comprehensive critical guide to examine all leading contemporary theories of punishments, this book explores – among others – retribution, the communicative theory of punishment, restorative justice and the unified theory of punishment. Thom Brooks applies these theories to several case studies in detail, including capital punishment, juvenile offending and domestic violence. Punishment highlights the problems and prospects of different approaches in order to argue for a more pluralistic and compelling perspective that is novel and ground-breaking. This second edition has extensive revisions and updates to all chapters, including an all-new chapter on the unified theory substantively redrafted and new chapters on cyber-crimes and social media as well as corporate crimes. Punishment is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy, criminal justice, criminology, justice studies, law, political science and sociology.

Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?

Author: Jo Brayford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136292195
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397

Book Description
Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially ‘other’ to society and discourages engagement with the real scale and scope of sexual offending in the UK. This book looks at the growth of work with sex offenders, questioning assumptions about the range and types of such offenders and what effective responses to these might be. Divided into four sections, this book sets out the growth of a broad legislative context and the emergence of child sexual offenders in criminal justice policy and practice. It goes on to consider a range of offences and victim typologies arguing that work with offenders and victims is complex and can provide a rich source of theoretical and practical knowledge that should be utilised more fully by both policy makers and practitioners. It includes work on female sex offenders, electronic monitoring and animal abuse as well as exploring interventions with sex offenders in three different contexts; prisons, communities and hostels. Bringing together academic, practice and policy experts, the book argues that a clear but complex theoretical and policy approach is required if the risk of re- offending and further victimisation is to be reduced. Ultimately, this book questions whether it makes sense to locate responsibility for responding to sexual offending solely within the criminal justice domain.