{"product_id":"9781442691513","title":"Strangers in Our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario","description":"\u003cp\u003eContemporary efforts to treat sex offenders are rooted in the post-Second World War era, in which an unshakable faith in science convinced many Canadian parents that pedophilia could be cured. \u003cem\u003eStrangers in Our Midst\u003c\/em\u003e explores the popularization of the notion of sexual deviancy as a way of understanding sexual behaviour, the emergence in Canada of legislation directed at sex offenders, and the evolution of treatment programs in Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopular discourses regarding sexual deviancy, legislative action against sex criminals, and the implementation of treatment programs for sex offenders have been widely attributed to a reactionary, conservative moral panic over changing sex and gender roles after the Second World War. Elise Chenier challenges this assumption, arguing that, in Canada, advocates of sex-offender treatment were actually liberal progressives. Drawing on previously unexamined sources, including medical reports, government commissions, prison files, and interviews with key figures, \u003cem\u003eStrangers in Our Midst\u003c\/em\u003e offers an original critical analysis of the rise of sexological thinking in Canada, and shows how what was conceived as a humane alternative to traditional punishment could be put into practice in inhumane ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140174463216,"sku":"9781442691513","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442691513_p0.jpg?v=1763808122","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442691513","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}