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Predator leads us to disavow that identification through the force of Ultimately, I suggest that our surprising identification with the Predator's shifting pleasure, self-beratement and shame. The show as a spectacle of sadomasochism and a scene of oscillating and The second reading, psychoanalytic in approach, pictures Theįirst reading pictures the show as producing a kind of disavowed child Offer two different but related readings of To Catch a Predator.

Have shaped the legal discourse on child predation. Predator both constituted and destabilized that category in ways that In my view, the show's invocation of the category of Regulatory fantasy that served to restrict, produce, and fractureĭesire. My argument is that To Catch a Predator functioned as a realm of 'predator' in popular imagination, in public policy and in

#Dateline to catch a predator series#

In this paper, I explore that culturalįantasy by turning to a wildly popular television series called To CatchĪ Predator, which played a dramatic role in shaping the category of 'predator' that they signal-in fact follows a deeper logic ofĬultural fantasy and desire.

I want to suggest that the seeming illogic of the sextingĬases-the simultaneous expansion and disintegration of the category Protect? How did the law come to picture the predator and the victim as 'predator.' How did a body of law designed to protect childrenįrom predators come to be used against the children it was designed to Now the teen who creates child pornography of herself is a Their cell phones and texting them to their friends or sexual partners. Pornography of themselves-taking sexual pictures of themselves with (12) These cases prosecute teens as sex offenders for making child Of 'sexting' prosecutions, which began in earnest in earlyĢ009. A salient example comes from the recent epidemic Indeed, as the category of predator has grown, it has become (10) (a term that has an extremely expansive definition in its own Violent child rapists to teens who possess 'child pornography' The category now encompasses a diverse range of offenders, from the most Since the term 'predator' first emerged, its meaning hasĮxpanded and mutated to include a broadening array of sex criminals. His life, (6) or commit him indefinitely to a mental hospital. 'predator' implied that the offender was relentless andĪnimal-like thus, it no longer sufficed merely to send him to jail.Īfter his release, we now had to register him, track him for the rest of (3) New methodsĭeveloped (4) to detect and scrutinize him. Regulate and monitor this emerging species of criminal. The 'pedophile' become the 'predator'? And what wereĪs the category took shape, a vast new legal apparatus arose to Mainstay in media reports and in the popular imagination. 'predator' has become a term of art in legal regulation, and a This new terminology first emerged in the 1990's, the word 'pedophiles' or perhaps 'child molesters.' Since Predator'-has arisen to describe criminals who commit sexual In the last two decades, a new term-'sexual Retrieved from Įsire is never renounced, but becomes preserved and reasserted 2011 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 20 Sep.

#Dateline to catch a predator free#

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