Pedophiles and Cyber-predators as Contaminating Forces: The Language of Disgust, Pollution, and Boundary Invasions in Federal Debates on Sex Offender Legislation
Pedophiles and Cyber-predators as Contaminating Forces: The Language of Disgust, Pollution, and Boundary Invasions in Federal Debates on Sex Offender Legislation
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恋童癖和网络掠夺者作为污染力量：关于性犯罪者立法的联邦辩论中的厌恶、污染和边界入侵的语言
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2002
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Mona Lynch
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Mona Lynch
作为一个独特的罪犯类别，性犯罪者特别受到新的“风险管理”刑罚策略的影响，根据许多学者的说法，近年来，这种策略已经主导了惩罚的修辞和实践。尽管如此，针对性犯罪者的刑事司法政策制定似乎有更多基于情感的阴暗面。在这篇论文中，我研究了作为当代性犯罪者立法基础的情感驱动力，表明推动当前性犯罪者遏制策略的重要力量是厌恶、害怕传染和避免污染的情感表达，体现在对纯粹和危险的社会领域之间边界脆弱性的立法关注上。为了做到这一点，我分析了美国立法者的立法话语，因为他们在20世纪90年代末辩论了四项针对性犯罪者的立法法案。
As a distinct class of criminals, sex offenders stand out as being particularly subject to the new “risk management” penal strategies that, according to a number of scholars, have come to dominate punishment rhetoric and practices in recent years. Nonetheless, the criminal justice policymaking that targets sex offenders appears to have a more emotionally based underside. In this paper, I examine the emotional drive that appears to undergird contemporary sex offender lawmaking, suggesting that a significant force propelling the current panoply of sex offender containment strategies is a constellation of emotional expressions of disgust, fear of contagion, and pollution avoidance, manifested in a legislative concern about boundary vulnerabilities between social spheres of the pure and the dangerous. To do so, I analyze the lawmaking discourse of U. S. legislators as they debated four proposed legislative bills directed at sex offenders during the late 1990s.