ISBN-13-978-0-674-80268-3
Writer: Richard Green
Title: Sexual Science and the Law
Language: English
Place of Publication: Cambridge, MA & London, England
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year of Publication: 1992
Format: 152x241mm
Pages:323 printed on acid-free paper; Notes, 269; Index, 313
Binding: Boards in colour dust jacket
Jacket design: Annamarie McMahon
Weight: 569gr.
Entry No.: 2011010
Entry Date: 2nd May 2011
Writer: Richard Green
Title: Sexual Science and the Law
Language: English
Place of Publication: Cambridge, MA & London, England
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year of Publication: 1992
Format: 152x241mm
Pages:323 printed on acid-free paper; Notes, 269; Index, 313
Binding: Boards in colour dust jacket
Jacket design: Annamarie McMahon
Weight: 569gr.
Entry No.: 2011010
Entry Date: 2nd May 2011
BOOK DESCRIPTION
A rape victim charges that pornography caused her attacker to become a sex offender. A lesbian mother fights for custody of her child. A transsexual pilot is fired by a commercial airline after undergoing sex change and sues for sex discrimination. A homosexual is denied employment because of sexual orientation. A woman argues that her criminal behavior should be excused because she suffers from premenstrual syndrome. The law has much to say about sexual behavior, but what it says is rarely influenced by the findings of social science research over recent decades. This book focuses for the first time on the dynamic interplay between sexual science and legal decision-making. Reflecting the author’s wide experience as a respected sex researcher, expert witness, and lawyer, Sexual Science and the Law provides valuable insights into some of the most controversial social and sexual topics of our time.
Drawing on an exhaustive knowledge of the relevant research and citing extensively from case law and court transcripts, Richard Green demonstrates how the work of sexual science could bring about a transformation in jurisprudence, informing the courts in their deliberations on issues such as sexual privacy, homosexuality, prostitution, abortion, pornography, and sexual abuse. In each case he considers, Green shows how the law has been shaped by social science or impoverished by reliance on conjecture and received wisdom. He examines the role of sexual science in legal controversy, its analysis of human motivation and behavior, and its use by the courts in determining the relative weight to be given the desires of the individual, the standards of society, and the power of the state in limiting sexual autonomy.
Unprecedented in its portrayal of sexuality in a legal context, this scholarly but readable book will interest and educate professional and layperson alike –those lawyers, judges, sex educators, therapists, patients, and citizens who find themselves standing nonplussed at the meeting place of morality and behavior.
Drawing on an exhaustive knowledge of the relevant research and citing extensively from case law and court transcripts, Richard Green demonstrates how the work of sexual science could bring about a transformation in jurisprudence, informing the courts in their deliberations on issues such as sexual privacy, homosexuality, prostitution, abortion, pornography, and sexual abuse. In each case he considers, Green shows how the law has been shaped by social science or impoverished by reliance on conjecture and received wisdom. He examines the role of sexual science in legal controversy, its analysis of human motivation and behavior, and its use by the courts in determining the relative weight to be given the desires of the individual, the standards of society, and the power of the state in limiting sexual autonomy.
Unprecedented in its portrayal of sexuality in a legal context, this scholarly but readable book will interest and educate professional and layperson alike –those lawyers, judges, sex educators, therapists, patients, and citizens who find themselves standing nonplussed at the meeting place of morality and behavior.
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