PERSONAL POWER AND PUBLIC CONTROL: SEX CRIMES AND PROBLEM PAGES
作者:
MOIRA PEELO,
KEITH SOOTHILL,
期刊:
The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 33,
issue 1
页码: 10-24
ISSN:0265-5527
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1994.tb00791.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Abstract:In this paper we examine the process whereby problem pages contribute to turning what some would perceive to be private troubles' into ‘public issues’, while offering public acknowledgemenl of crimes committed as well as solace and advice to victims of sex crimes. The two examples used, ‘male rape’ and ‘underage sex’ illustrate the complex role of moral arbiter, whereby agony aunts and uncles act as social barometers, reflecting the confusion surrounding definitions of sex crimes. By examining problem pages we learn more about how society defines the borderlines between private problems and public, crimin
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