Dark Corners: Child Sex Murder, Forensic Expertise, and Protective Treatment in Socialist Czechoslovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jhmas/jraf011/8117633" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jhmas/jraf011/8117633</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jraf011" target="_blank" >10.1093/jhmas/jraf011</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dark Corners: Child Sex Murder, Forensic Expertise, and Protective Treatment in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Original language description
In 1966, the sexual murder of an eleven-year-old in Prague occupied the media and broader public, reinforcing expert debates about child sex offenders. In this article, we trace changes in medical experts’ understanding of child sex offenders in socialist Czechoslovakia between the late 1950s and mid-1970s. We show that psychiatrists and sexologists discussed forensic evaluation and the need for specialized treatment years before the 1966 case, but therapeutic practices lagged behind. As the networks of expertise shifted after this key crime, medical experts made up new kinds of people – deviant and non-deviant sex offenders – and gradually standardized treatment procedures. We argue that in addition to experts, the media and the lay public represented key agents who contributed to the establishment of a complex system of sexological protective treatment in Czechoslovakia. This system has remained almost unchanged to this day.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GX21-28766X" target="_blank" >GX21-28766X: Expertise in authoritarian societies. Human sciences in the socialist countries of East-Central Europe</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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