Prison will not cure a sexual perversion: Sexology, forensic psychiatry, and their patients in twentieth-century Britain
Weston, J;
(2015)
Prison will not cure a sexual perversion: Sexology, forensic psychiatry, and their patients in twentieth-century Britain.
In: Böni, O; Johnstone, J, (eds.)
Crimes of Passion: Repräsentationen der Sexualpathologie im frühen 20. Jahrhundert.
De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 344-367.
ISBN 9783110420142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110420142-020
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This chapter in 'Crimes of Passion' considers the late arrival of sexology to British medicine, the role of criminology and forensic psychiatry in its development, and some of the diagnositc criteria which doctors in Britain used to determine which sexual offenders could be 'cured'. It also touches upon some of the reactions to medical interpretation and treatment from sexual offenders themselves.
