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One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually based crime. The resulting hysteria threatened to ruin the life of an innocent man. In this passionate and provocative book, Lancaster blends astute analysis, robust polemic, ethnography, and personal narrative to delve into the complicated relationship between sexuality and punishment in our society. Drawing on classical social science, critical legal studies, and queer theory, he tracks the rise of a modern suburban culture of fear and develops new insights into the punitive logic that has put down deep roots in everyday American life.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 328
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
15 March 2011
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520262065
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
“Casts a thought-provoking perspective.”
Roger N. Lancaster is Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies at George Mason University and is the author of several books, including Life Is Hard and The Trouble with Nature, both from UC Press.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fear Eats the Soul
PART ONE: SEX PANIC
1. Panic: A Guide to the Uses of Fear
2. Innocents at Home: How Sex Panics Reshaped American Culture
3. To Catch a Predator: New Monsters, Imagined Risks, and the Erosion of Legal Norms
4. The Magical Power of the Accusation: How I Became a Sex Criminal and Other True Stories
PART TWO: THE PUNITIVE STATE
5. Zero Tolerance: Crime and Punishment in the Punitive State
6. Innocents Abroad: Taboo and Terror in the Global War
7. Constructing Victimization: How Americans Learned to Love Trauma
8. The Victimology Trap: Capitalism, Liberalism, and Grievance
Conclusion: Whither the Punitive State?
Appendix 1: Race, Incarceration, and Notification
Appendix 2: Notes on Method
Notes
Index
Introduction: Fear Eats the Soul
PART ONE: SEX PANIC
1. Panic: A Guide to the Uses of Fear
2. Innocents at Home: How Sex Panics Reshaped American Culture
3. To Catch a Predator: New Monsters, Imagined Risks, and the Erosion of Legal Norms
4. The Magical Power of the Accusation: How I Became a Sex Criminal and Other True Stories
PART TWO: THE PUNITIVE STATE
5. Zero Tolerance: Crime and Punishment in the Punitive State
6. Innocents Abroad: Taboo and Terror in the Global War
7. Constructing Victimization: How Americans Learned to Love Trauma
8. The Victimology Trap: Capitalism, Liberalism, and Grievance
Conclusion: Whither the Punitive State?
Appendix 1: Race, Incarceration, and Notification
Appendix 2: Notes on Method
Notes
Index