Constructing Sex Crime

1890 - 1934

1) morality laws

2) inventing the pervert

3) Fiends

4) the borderland of insanity

5) sterilizations

6) Progressive coalitions

The Age of the Sex Psychopath

1935-1957

1) discovering sex crime: 1935-1940

2)The age of sex crime: 1945-1955

3) the sex psychopath

4) the diversity of sex offenses

5) paradox: the massive overdiagnosis of sex psychopathy

1) the revolving door to longer sentences

2) the sex psychopath laws: 1937-1940

3) expansion: 1947-1957: for kidnapping, assault and homosexuality

4) Critical reception from legal and political conservatives and psychiatrists

The Liberal Era

1958-1976

1) sex crime as lynch law

2) inventing the child molester

3) mere molestation (as opposed to penitration)

4) Youth revolution: more sexually aware and active at an earlier age

5) the legal environment: traditional concepts of the objective nature of crime and illness is undermined by new theoretical influence

6) Overturning the sex psychopath laws: legal decision shift towards the suffering/injustice of these criminals - less personal, sex offending is a social problem

The Child Abuse Revolution

1976-1986

1) formulating child abuse: agreement to enforce measure that protect vulnerable children (Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974).

2) The politics of morality: political trend to reaffirm traditional values meets renewed interest in child exploitation

3) The politics of rape: spurred by feminist movement to change laws that required physical evidence in rape

4) Child sexual abuse: more sensitivity leads to more reporting

5) Missing and murdered: more than just protecting moral well-being

6) Father rape: feminist spurred by the absolute dictatorship of father rule

7) momentem: perpetuated by media sensationalism

8) Presumption of guilt: accusations are always justified

1) offenders are simply confused - now they are organized

2) facts become embellished about pornography production: 264 child porn magazines exists is inflated to 264 child porn magazines published every month

3) NAMBLA: linking gays and pedophiles - intergenerational sexuality

4) dangers of pedophilia and child pornography provide powerful ammunition to conservative interests