Kevin Denys Bonnycastle's Stranger Rape is an in-depth study of the lives of fourteen men who raped women unknown to them. Using new data derived from official offender files, offender program observations, and the men's personal histories, Bonnycastle documents, compares, and contrasts their experiences from boyhood to adulthood and eventual incarceration. Bonnycastle argues that stranger-rapists do not fit existing portrayals of them as predatory monsters or misogynist everymen. Instead, through an innovative approach that builds on research and theory from feminism, gender studies, critical criminology, and masculinity studies, she positions stranger-rape as a matter of experiences of pain and powerlessness rather than of male power and control. The book's major achievement is to recognize rapists and rape in their particularity and complexity in the hope that critical thinking about their lives and about their experiences in penal contexts and programs may eventually lead to what one respondent called his 'road to redemption.' Please note that this book includes graphic content.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-13
9781442613461
eBay Product ID (ePID)
138815465
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Sexual Abuse
Author
Kevin Bonnycastle
Publication Name
Stranger Rape: Rapists, Masculinity and Penal Governance
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Zoology, Criminology
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
228mm
Item Width
154mm
Item Weight
540g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Kevin Bonnycastle
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
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