Sex Panic and the Punitive State [Paperback]

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"Casts a thought-provoking perspective."--Salon

"Lancaster's approach is fresh, critical and engaging. Many scholars have examined America's 'carceral state,' but few so successfully combine personal narrative and passion with sober assessment. This is often a landmark book--a dismaying, angry, but powerful analysis of America's justice system."--Michael Sherry, Northwestern University

"Sex Panic as well as the Punitive State is often a passionate, wide-ranging analysis of an culture of American fear which takes shape as moral panic and a socially permeating knee-jerk vindictiveness--not just contrary to the criminal but against anyone (therefore everyone) who could be cast as a potential perpetrator. Its give attention to sex and crime is centrally on the male sexual predator, particularly the pedophile figure: but its richly archived and narrated examples reach from 19th century victimology on the present, from slavery to terrorism, and their legitimation in the preemptive moral strike. A manifesto up against the contemporary paranoid style and its hold about the law, media and you, this book is definitely an important contribution to LGBTQ studies also to American studies in general."--Lauren Berlant, Department of English, University of Chicago

"Sex Panic is gripping and provocative. Lancaster effectively weaves historical and ethnographic accounts along with his own experiences to illuminate the dangerous tilt in America's legal system toward a presumption of guilt. This is surely an important book for anyone considering how crime and justice are perceived in society."--Jonathan Simon, Berkeley Law, Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice

"A profound meditation on sex panics within the modern period, coupled which has a biting polemic from the role from the punitive state in American culture. This is really a must read for all concerned with all the state of human rights, sexuality, and political economy. You might not agree by using it all, but it will rattle your brain." --Gilbert Herdt, founder, Department of Sexuality Studies, Bay area State University

"From the moral panics about child abuse on the war on terror, Roger Lancaster brilliantly explores the fears and anxieties with the Usa in recent decades, showing the way they continuously participate inside shaping with the nation. His vivid depiction with the paranoid style and bellicose rhetoric in politics gives remarkable clues to comprehend contemporary punitive governance." --Didier Fassin, James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science on the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University

"Sex Panic & the Punitive State is a sensationally smart integration in the ever-expanding regime of sex-offender surveillance and punishment with all those vexing phenomena you knew were related but couldn't discover how: victim worship; parental paranoia; the racialization of crime; neoliberalism; the 'war on terror'--and more. Lancaster spares neither right nor left, feminist nor religious conservative; he privileges neither cultural nor economic theories. Meticulously historicized, complexly thought-out, and elegantly written, this exegesis of sexuality as well as the 'punitive state' will long be vital to academics, policymakers, and activists alike."--Judith Levine, author of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex