Consensual Violence (eBook)

Sex, Sports, and the Politics of Injury

Jill D. Weinberg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
160 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96472-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this novel approach to understanding consent, Jill D. Weinberg presents two case studies of activities in which participants engage in violent acts: competitive mixed martial arts (MMA) and sexual sadism and masochism (BDSM). Participants in both cases assent to injury and thereby engage in a form of social decriminalization, using the language of consent to render their actions legally and socially tolerable. Yet, these activities are treated differently under criminal battery law: sports, including MMA, are generally absolved from the charge of criminal battery, whereas BDSM often represents a violation of criminal battery law. Using interviews and ethnographic observation, Weinberg argues that where law authorizes a person's consent to an activity, as in MMA, consent is not meaningfully constructed or regulated by the participants themselves. In contrast, where law prohibits a person's consent to an activity, as in BDSM, participants actively construct and regulate consent. A synthesis of criminal law and ethnography, Consensual Violence is a fascinating account of how consent is framed among participants engaged in violent acts and lays the groundwork for a sociological understanding of the process of decriminalization.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.5.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: BDSM • Case Studies • Chokehold • Conduct • consent • criminal battery • Criminal Law • Decriminalization • ethnographic • ethnography • Experiment • Fighting • giving consent • health and wellness • Interviews • language • language of consent • Law and Order • legal cases • Legal issues • Mental Health • MMA • Observation • Safety • sex and sexuality • Sexuality • social experiment • social issues • Social Science • Social Studies • Taboo • understanding consent • Violence
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96472-1 / 0520964721
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96472-3 / 9780520964723