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

by Gillian Harkins

Book Overview

In Virtual Pedophilia Gillian Harkins traces how by the end of the twentieth century the pedophile as a social outcast evolved into its contemporary appearance as a virtually normal white male. The pedophile's alleged racial and gender normativity was treated as an exception to dominant racialized modes of criminal or diagnostic profiling. The pedophile was instead profiled as a virtual figure, a potential threat made visible only when information...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478008113
• ISBN13: 9781478008118
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"