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First published: June 1, 2025 - Last updated: June 1, 2025
TITLE INFORMATION
Authors: Andrea Bělehradová, Marie Láníková and Kateřina Lišková
Title: “Dark Corners”
Subtitle: Child Sex Murder, Forensic Expertise, and Protective Treatment in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Journal: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Volume: (Published online before print)
Issue:
Year: 2025 (Published online: April 22, 2025)
Pages: 21 pages (PDF)
pISSN: 0022-5045 -
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eISSN: 1468-4373 -
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Language: English
Keywords:
Modern History:
20th Century |
European History:
Czech History,
Slovakian History |
Cases:
Real Offenders /
Jaroslav Papež;
Victims:
Age and Gender /
Male Children;
Types:
Sexual Assault /
Child Sexual Abuse;
Research:
Disciplines /
Psychiatry,
Sexology
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Authors:
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Andrea Bělehradová,
Katedra sociologie (Department of Sociology),
Univerzita Hradec Králové (University of Hradec Králové) -
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ORCID,
ResearchGate
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Marie Láníková,
Katedra sociologie (Department of Sociology),
Univerzita Hradec Králové (University of Hradec Králové) -
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ORCID,
ResearchGate
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Kateřina Lišková,
Katedra sociologie (Department of Sociology),
Masarykova univerzita (Masaryk University) -
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ORCID,
ResearchGate
Abstract:
»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.
(Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)
Contents:
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Abstract (p. 1) |
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Eastern European Expertise on Sexual Deviants and Delinquents (p. 3) |
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Jurisdictional Struggles between Sexologists and Psychiatrists (p. 6) |
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Finding a Shared Language between Psychiatrists and Sexologists (p. 11) |
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The Breakthrough Case of Jaroslav Papež (p. 13) |
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Public Outcry Over Child Sex Murders and Abuse (p. 13) |
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Reactions of Experts to the “Dark Corners” Series (p. 16) |
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Debates Intensify and Complex Treatment System is Established (p. 17) |
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Conclusion (p. 20) |
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Acknowledgements (p. 21) |
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Funding (p. 21) |
Wikipedia:
History of Europe:
History of the Czech lands and
History of Slovakia /
History of Czechoslovakia |
Academic discipline:
Psychiatry,
Sexology |
Sex and the law:
Child sexual abuse
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