Harkins Gillian Harkins

Virtual Pedophilia (eBook, PDF)

Sex Offender Profiling and U.S. Security Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

In Virtual Pedophilia Gillian Harkins traces how by the end of the twentieth century the pedophile as a social outcast evolved into its contemporary appearance as a virtually normal white male. The pedophile's alleged racial and gender normativity was treated as an exception to dominant racialized modes of criminal or diagnostic profiling. The pedophile was instead profiled as a virtual figure, a potential threat made visible only when information was transformed into predictive image. The virtual pedophile was everywhere and nowhere, slipping through day-to-day life undetected until people learned how to arm themselves with the right combination of visually predictive information. Drawing on television, movies, and documentaries such as Law and Order: SVU, To Catch a Predator, Mystic River, and Capturing the Friedmans, Harkins shows how diverse U.S. audiences have been conscripted and trained to be lay detectives who should always be on the lookout for the pedophile as virtual predator. In this way, the perceived threat of the pedophile legitimated increased surveillance and ramped-up legal strictures that expanded the security apparatus of the carceral state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478009153
• Artikelnr.: 66282538

Autorenporträt

Gillian Harkins is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington and author of Everybody's Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Virtual Pedophilia  1
1. Monstrous Sexuality and Vile Sovereignty  29
2. Profiling Virtuality and Pedophilic Data  62
3. Informational Image and Procedural Tone  95
4. Capturing the Past and the Vitality of Crime  128
5. Capturing the Future and the Sexuality of Risk  161
Conclusion. Exceptional Pedophilia and the Everyday Case  194
Notes  209
References  229
Index  263