Sexual Deviance and Society: A Sociological Examination

ISBN-13: 9780367544126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 532 str.

Meredith G. F. Worthen

Opis

This book brings together the fields of criminology, deviance and gender as a framework for discussing sex, sexuality and sex crime, covering core theoretical positions on social and sexual deviance and types of sexually deviant acts and sex crimes.

Spis treści

1.Introduction and Self-Care  I.Sociology of Deviance and Sexuality  2.Defining Deviance  3.Theories of Crime and Deviance  4.Social Power and Gender, Sex, and Sexuality  5.Gender and Deviance  II.Sexual Deviance  6.Defining Sexual Deviance  7.Historical Perspectives on Sexual Deviance  8.Adolescent Sexual Deviance  III. Deviant Sexual Acts  9.Sex in Public  10.Fetishes  11.Sex Work  IV.Sex Crimes and Criminals  12.Rape and Sexual Assault  13.Sex Crimes Against Children  14. Sex Offenders and Society  15.Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Meredith G. F. Worthen is a Professor of Sociology and elected faculty member of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA.