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Virtual pedophilia : sex offender profiling and U.S. security culture / Gillian Harkins.

"VIRTUAL PEDOPHILIA examines the cultural construction of the pedophile in relation to the rise of the carceral state and neoliberal tactics of forensic securitization. The pedophile, according to Gillian Harkins, is everywhere and nowhere: he eludes diagnostic and forensic profiling by slippin...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Harkins, Gillian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Pedophilia > Social aspects > United States.
Pedophilia in mass media > Social aspects > United States.
Online sexual predators > United States.
Computer crimes > Investigation > United States.
Mass media and crime > United States.
Sex offenders > United States.
Internet and children > Social aspects > United States.
Computer crimes > Investigation.
Mass media and crime.
Online sexual predators.
Sex offenders.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Virtual pedophilia
  • Monstrous sexuality and vile sovereignty
  • Profiling virtuality and pedophilic data
  • Informational image and procedural tone
  • Capturing the past and the vitality of crime
  • Capturing the future and the sexuality of risk
  • Conclusion: Exceptional pedophilia and the everyday case.

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