»Sexual Predators« – die Monster unserer Zeit?

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Isabella Krupp
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Predators

Sexualstraftäter – die Teufel der Moderne? In Filmen und Fernsehserien treten sie uns als entfesselte Bestien gegenüber, die ihren dämonischen Trieben freien Lauf lassen. Die Berichterstattung zu Sexualstraftaten sowie die Reaktionen der Rezipienten sind häufig bestimmt von Dämonisierung und Dehumanisierung der Täter. Dieses Bild verzerrt soziale und seelische Realitäten. Ferner führt dies zu einer überproportionalen Kriminalitätsfurcht, welche sich auch in populistischen kriminalpolitischen Forderungen niederschlägt. Bereitet das Bild der Monster die Regression zu archaischen Strafvorstellungen vor? Welchen Anteil trägt hierbei unsere eigene sadistische Straflust? Diesen und verwandten Fragen versucht der Text nachzugehen. An der Hypertrophie der aggressiven Komponente der Reaktionen sind projektive Mechanismen beteiligt, welche mit Abwehr und Kanalisierung abgewehrter Triebstrebungen verbunden sind; so die hier vertretene Annahme.

Preventive Confinement of Dangerous Offenders

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Morse
Keyword(s):  
Legal Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Issue ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Sexual Predators ◽  
Dangerous Offenders ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One ◽  
Constitutional Regime

How to respond justly to the dangers persistent violent offenders present is a vexing moral and legal issue. On the one hand, we wish to reduce predation; on the other, we want to treat predators fairly. The central theme of this paper is that it is difficult to achieve both goals without compromising one of them, and that both are being seriously undermined. I begin by explaining the legal theory, doctrine and practice governing dangerous offenders (DO) and demonstrate that the law leaves a gap in the ability to confine them. Next I explore the means by which the law has overtly or covertly sought to fill the gap. Many of these measures, especially the new form of civil commitment for sexual predators, dangerously conflate moral and medical categories. I conclude that pure preventive detention is more common than we usually assume, but that this practice violates fundamental assumptions concerning liberty under the American constitutional regime.

Entrapping the Innocent: Toward a Theory of Child Sexual Predators? Luring Communication

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loreen N. Olson ◽  
Joy L. Daggs ◽  
Barbara L. Ellevold ◽  
Teddy K. K. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Predators

“Language More Effective than Words”

Graphic News ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 47-84
Author(s):  
Amanda Frisken
Keyword(s):  
Chinese American ◽  
Sexual Predators ◽  
Distorted Version ◽  
Chinese Workers ◽  
Limited Power ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Positive Representations

This chapter explores how, in the late 1870s and early 1880s, the NationalPolice Gazette adapted its racialization of rape to characterize Chinese laborers as sexual predators. While family-based illustrated papers – such as Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Harper’s Weekly, and the Daily Graphic – Orientalized the Chinese, The Police Gazette amplified rhetoric from anti-Chinese agitators, such as Denis Kearney, about Chinese sexual predators, a new rationale for federal exclusion legislation. Journalist Wong Chin Foo’s efforts to interject a more positive iconography of Chinese workers, in his paper The Chinese-American and other venues, had limited power to challenge the anti-Chinese movement’s pervasive stereotypes. Wong’s positive representations were no match for the mystique of the more sensational – and distorted – version of Chinatown.

The Electric Hookup

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-81
Author(s):  
Brenna Helm ◽  
Thomas Vander Ven ◽  
Howard T. Welser
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Relational Patterns ◽  
Sexual Predators ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Dating Apps ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hookup Culture ◽  
Potential Risks

Social critics claim that emerging adults are subjecting themselves and one another to a variety of risks through the use of mobile dating and hookup applications, or “apps.” These narratives emphasize concerns about authenticity, the threat of sexual predators, and changing expectations about the nature and emotional intimacy of relationships. The use of apps among emerging adults presents risks for individual users and for social relational patterns, both in the digital world and “on the ground.” In this chapter, the authors analyze the theoretical and empirical risks of mediating hookup culture through the use of mobile dating apps and discuss the potential risks to app users, such as harassment, cyberstalking, and sexual violence. Next, the authors explore the social risks pertaining to authenticity, trust, the quality of relationships, and conflicting understandings of social norms and acceptable behaviors. Finally, the chapter concludes with suggestions for future directions in research related to the use of hookup apps and its related risks.

Brave women sound the alarm – representations of men and women in the Swedish media coverage of #MeToo

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-46
Author(s):  
Hillevi Ganetz ◽  
Lisa Lindqvist
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Sexual Predators ◽  
The Many ◽  
Representations Of Women

In autumn 2017 in Sweden, the #MeToo movement and sexual assault became a focus of broad debate. Swedish media coverage of the movement was centred around the many petitions made by anonymous groups of women to illuminate the extent of the problem of sexual assault, as well as a few cases of accusations against well-known and powerful men in both the culture and media industries. In order to elicit common representations of men and their female accusers, this study applies critical discourse analysis (CDA) to news media coverage and Facebook comments of three of those accused men: TV personality Martin Timell, journalist Fredrik Virtanen and culture personality Jean-Claude Arnault. The results indicate that representations of women as both witnesses and heroines work to reinforce notions of female responsibility as a means to halt sexual assault, while representations of men as sexual predators build on demarcations of illegal and mere misogynistic or “bad” behaviour, which in turn reinforce notions of male victimhood. These representations point to legal discourse as hegemonic, as it seems to limit the discussion and only present individual solutions, such as women bearing witness, to the structural problem of sexual assault. Simultaneously, the results indicate that the #MeToo movement and other feminist discourse have also had an effect on news media representations of sexual assault by broadening the concept beyond the consent/rape dichotomy.

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