Introduction Part One: Reducing Harm, Increasing Agency 1.Selling Sex 2.Institutional Violence Against Those Who Sell Sex 3.Sexual Education 4.Reproductive Justice Part Two: Decriminalizing Desire 5.Carceral Facilities 6.BDSM and Consent 7.Young People’s Sexual Identities and Behaviors Epilogue: Since We Started Writing This Book
Biography
Aimee Wodda is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Law and Society at Pacific University. Her research focuses on the intersection between institutionalized forms of harm and gender, sexuality, and the law.
Vanessa R. Panfil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University. She is also the author of The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members (NYU Press, 2017).
'Wodda and Panfil’s Sex-Positive Criminology is an act of courage—the courage to explore sexuality, desire, crime, and criminal justice in all their perilous complexity. Brilliantly critiquing those institutions of control that stigmatize and criminalize human sexuality, the book in turn proposes an inclusive, sensual, liberatory rethinking of criminology itself.'
Jeff Ferrell, Professor of Sociology, Texas Christian University, Author of Drift: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge
'This book is long overdue and sheds a much-needed light in understanding sex-positivity in criminological theory and research. Traditional criminology scholars often explore sexuality negatively, as it pertains to sexual deviance and violence. With a sex-positivity framework, Wodda and Panfil offer the reader a more nuanced and complex "sexual universe" to consider and fully shed light on the harms caused by regulating and criminalizing sexuality. This book is a fascinating read for anyone interested in sex, law, crime, and justice.'
Lisa Pasko, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver, Author of Girls, Youth Justice and the Regulation of Sexualities
