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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GX21-28766X" target="_blank" >GX21-28766X: Expertíza v autoritářských společnostech. Vědy o člověku v socialistických zemích středovýchodní Evropy</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

ISSN

0022-5045

e-ISSN

1468-4373

Svazek periodika

XX.

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

April 2025

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

1-21

Kód UT WoS článku

001472091100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105019541241