CRM 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heterosexuality, Hypermasculinity, Brothel
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Maynard: through a hole in the lavatory wall. Traces the emergence of the subculture of public sex between men" in toronto. Focuses on the role that police surveillance techniques played in: enabling the formation of this subculture, and, bringing knowledge of the existence of the subculture to popular attention. The police gaze" actively seeking out certain behaviour, neglects other criminal behaviours if police searching for men having sex in public spaces, will find these men in public spaces. Many men caught by officers patrolling streets/walking the beat. Develop surveillance systems to monitor main focus was public washrooms and city parks. Stanley cohen coined term of moral panic . [a] condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to social values and interests stanley cohen, 1973. Media often exaggerates to create sense of danger among society.