Virtual Pedophilia: Sex Offender Profiling and U.S. Security Culture

Gillian Harkins

Published by Duke University Press 2020

Virtual Pedophilia

Sex Offender Profiling and U.S. Security Culture

Gillian Harkins

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009153

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About this book

Gillian Harkins traces the genealogy of the transformation of cultural construction of the pedophile as a social outcast into the image of normative white masculinity from the 1980s to the present, showing how his “normalcy” makes him hard to identify and stop.

Author / Editor information

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

Reviews

“The explosive subject of pedophilia too often generates social hysteria. In Virtual Pedophilia Gillian Harkins counters that response with an impressively researched multidisciplinary analysis of the emergence of the cultural figure of ‘the pedophile’ in the late twentieth century. But even more importantly, her lucid, pointed, and politically urgent provocations make this one of the most important books on sexual politics published in the past twenty years.”

-- Lisa Duggan, author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed

“It takes a century to not catch a predator: to birth him as a white man we can never net. Why can't we catch him? We can't see him. He's a white needle in a very white haystack. With statistics pooling, information flooding, he more eludes. He becomes ‘virtual,’ which bears devastating racial effects for communities of color. Expect this original, astonishing weave in Gillian Harkins' arresting new book. Tying together racial critique, feminist and sexuality studies, and legal discourse, Harkins proffers razor-sharp claims that challenge several fields—even queer theory. At every turn in this gripping read, I feel the author's crackling intelligence.”

-- Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century

“Virtual Pedophilia is an important and necessary book with far-ranging implications for multiple fields of study as well as for scholarly and activist interventions in cultures of surveillance, mass incarceration, and pathologization.”

-- Gabrielle Owen American Literary History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION: VIRTUAL PEDOPHILIA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
ONE. MONSTROUS SEXUALITY AND VILE SOVEREIGNTY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
TWO. PROFILING VIRTUALITY AND PEDOPHILIC DATA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
THREE. INFORMATIONAL IMAGE AND PROCEDURAL TONE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
FOUR. CAPTURING THE PAST AND THE VITALITY OF CRIME Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
FIVE. CAPTURING THE FUTURE AND THE SEXUALITY OF RISK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
CONCLUSION. EXCEPTIONAL PEDOPHILIA AND THE EVERYDAY CASE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 286

eBook

Published: April 10, 2020
ISBN: 9781478009153