Extreme Concern: Regulating 'Dangerous Pictures' in the United Kingdom
Extreme Concern: Regulating 'Dangerous Pictures' in the United Kingdom
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极度关注：英国对“危险图片”的监管
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-6478.2010.00500.x
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Attwood F
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作者：
Attwood F
本文首先探讨了最近的《2008年刑事司法和移民法》第5条，该条也被称为《危险图片法》，它禁止拥有“极端图像”，以及迟来用于证明立法合理性的快速证据评估。然后，我们研究的增长，传播和广泛的可用性的材料，“荣耀的性暴力”及其推定的“影响”的索赔。当前对色情的意义的危机突出了“色情图像化”概念话语的修辞功能，它与消费者或观众对明确材料的有问题的比喻的联系，以及“极端”色情的识别如何表达了对媒体身体化的一系列焦虑。最后，我们认为，反对立法不仅仅是保护个人自由或拒绝承认危害的存在;相反，我们建议学术界需要质疑立法冲动所依据的参数。
This article begins with an exploration of section 5 of the recent Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, otherwise known as the ‘Dangerous Pictures Act’ which outlaws the possession of ‘extreme images’, and the Rapid Evidence Assessment belatedly used to justify the legislation. We then examine the claims of the growth, dissemination, and widespread availability of material which ‘glories in sexual violence’ and its putative ‘effects’. This current crisis over the meanings of pornography highlights the rhetorical function of the conceptual discourse of ‘pornographication’, its links to problematic figurations of the consumer or viewer of explicit materials, and how the identification of ‘extreme’ pornography has given voice to a range of anxieties about media spectacularization of the body. We end by arguing that opposition to the legislation is not just a matter of protecting personal freedoms or refusing to recognize the existence of harms; instead, we propose that academics will need to question the very parameters on which the impulses to legislate are based.