The Prison Medical Service

This article examines the reasons behind the rise and subsequent fall of homophobia and sexual psychopath laws in postwar Western societies. Although, in many ways, these concerns can be seen as the antecedents of those underlying current sexual predator legislation, it is argued that the antecedents were themselves the product of a particular formulation of the concept of “risk.” The article illustrates how this risk formulation came to be articulated—and then disarticulated—over these concerns.

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The Prison Medical Service

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‘From Defensive Paranoia to …Openness to Outside Scrutiny’: Prison Medical Officers in England and Wales, 1979–86

‘From Defensive Paranoia to …Openness to Outside Scrutiny’: Prison Medical Officers in England and Wales, 1979–86

The rise and fall of homophobia and sexual psychopath legislation in postwar society.

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