Consensual Violence

Sex, Sports, and the Politics of Injury

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ID19993530
AuthorsJill D Weinberg (0000-0001-8411-1899, corresponding author), Jill D Weinberg Ph D JD
Year2016
Pages160
Publication date2016-05-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueConsensual Violence (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520290655.001.0001
OpenAlexW4251770447
ISBN9780520290655
Open LibraryOL27457519M
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Most people often think decriminalization happens by repealing a law, but Sex, Sports, and the Politics of Consensual Violence challenges this view showing that social decriminalization must precede legal change. Social decriminalization requires four conditions: 1) an organized group who participates in a similar activity; 2) a shared legal consciousness; 3) an established set of rules and norms that appeal to a Weberian legal-rational authority; and 4) a social context where the activity is not too morally verboten. This book features two case studies where groups engage in acts of consensual violence – mixed-martial arts and sexual sadomasochism – to demonstrate how both develop rules and norms around the notion of consent to render their activities legally and socially tolerable. Social decriminalization is a conceptual tool that can help us better understand social and legal change from a constructivist lens

Appeal · Consciousness · Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Decriminalization · Political science · Principle of legality · Sociology · Doping in Sports · Law · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology · Case studies · Consent (law) · law and legislation · Mixed martial arts · Sadomasochism · Violence

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