This collection focuses attention on an important but
academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing:
the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the
high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in
relation to violent and abusive sexual crimes (from child sexual
abuse to adult rape) very little public or scholarly attention is
paid to the policing of consensual sexual practices in contemporary
societies. Whilst sexual life is commonly understood to be a matter
of private life that is beyond formal social control, this book
shows that policing is implicated in the regulation of a wide range
of consensual sexual practices. This book brings together a well
known and respected group of academics, from a range of
disciplines, to explore the role of the police in shaping the
boundaries of that aspect of our lives that we imagine to be most
intimate and most our own. The volume presents a snap shot of
policing in respect of a number of diverse areas such as public
sex, pornography, and sex work and considers how sexual orientation
structures police responses to them. The authors critically examine
how policing is implicated in the social, moral and political
landscape of sex and, contrary to the established rhetoric of
politicians and criminal justice practitioners, continues to
intervene in the private lives of citizens.
It is essential supplementary reading for courses in
criminology, law, policing, sociology of deviance, gender and
sexuality, and cultural studies.
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