Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law

Details of the Encyclopedia

• ISBN-13:9781933116570
• Publisher:Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
• Publication date:09/21/2006
• Pages:368

About the author of this Encyclopedia

Robert L. Maddex is an attorney specializing in international law who serves as an advisor on constitutional procedures and issues. He is the author of Congressional Quarterly’s Constitutions of the World, Illustrated Dictionary of Constitutional Concepts, and State Constitutions of the United States.

Robert L. Maddex, according to the text in this legal reference, “spurred a movement to protect human rights internationally and in the United States, including equal rights for persons of both sexes.”

From the Publisher

Whether the issue is sexual predators, abortion, same-sex marriage, sexual harassment, or internet pornography, stories relating to sexual matters regularly make headlines in the news and provoke strong emotions. But until now, researchers looking for policy information on these issues have been limited to reading books that often express particular points of view, or to searching multi-volume professional legal resources.

Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law is a single comprehensive volume, written specifically for the non-lawyer, that addresses sexual policy in the United States, as shaped by federal laws, state laws, and court cases. This unique new resource provides balanced, reliable treatment to some of the most important, highly publicized topics in society today.

In approximately 150 encyclopedic entries, Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law addresses:

• Broad policy areas, including entertainment industry regulations, laws for teenagers, as both victims and perpetrators, and the legal aspects of marriage
• Significant laws, including the Child Online Protection Act, Megan’s law, and rape shield laws
  Medical and health policies and issues, including DNA evidence, stem-cell research, and genetic information
• The role of government agencies and institutions, including the Food and Drug Administration and the FBI’s Crimes against Children unit
• The Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law also covers significant court cases, private organizations and institutions, significant people, and many more relevant subjects. This new volume will serve as a useful guide to this complicated subject for researchers in university, community college, high school, and public libraries.

Reviews on this Encyclopedia

“Libraries…supporting beginning undergraduates may find this resource useful, especially the charts that compare state laws on divorce, marriage (also same-sex marriage), maternity leave, and related issues.” – Choice

List of Entries of the Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law

• A Note on Sources
• Abortion
• Abstinence
• Abuse
• ACLU
• Adult Materials
• Adultery
• Affirmative Action
• AIDS-HIV
• Alec Jeffreys
• Alfred Kinsey
• Alimony
• Amer. Med. Assoc.
• American Civil Liberties Union
• American Fertility Association
• American Medical Association
• Annulment
• Anthony Comstock
• Art
• Artificial Insemination
• Artificial Reproductive Technology
• Ashcroft v. ACLU
• Assisted Reproductive Technology
• Banned Materials
• Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc.
• Bastard
• Bestiality
• Bigamy
• Bioethics
• Birth Control
• Bisexuality
• Bradwell v. Illinois
• Breast Implants
• Breastfeeding
• Breast-feeding in Public
• Burlesque
• Burlington Industries, Inc v. Ellerth
• Censorship
• Child Abuse
• Child Custody
• Child Online Protection Act
• Child Support
• Children
• Cloning and Stem Cell Research
• Cohabitation
• Communications Decency Act
• Community Standards
• Congress
• Consent
• Contraception
• Craig v. Boren
• Crimes Against Children Unit (FBI)
• Cybersex
• Date Rape
• Defense of Marriage Act
• Defense of Marriage Amendment (Proposed)
• Defense of Marriage Laws
• Definition of Marriage Laws
• Deviant Behavior
• Discrimination
• Disease
• Divorce
• DNA
• Domestic Violence
• Drugs
• Education
• Entertainment Industry
• Equal Rights
• Erotic Dancing
• Ethics
• Exploitation
• Family Planning
• Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
• Federal Communications Commission
• Federal Marriage Amendment
• Female Genital Mutilation
• Feminism
• Fertility
• First Amendment
• Food and Drug Administration
• Fornication
• Franklin Kameny
• Freedom of Expression
• Freedom of Press
• Freedom of Speech
• Frontiero v. Richardson
• Gays
• Gender
• Genetics
• Ginzburg v. United States
• Griswold v. Conn.
• Griswold v. Connecticut
• Hate Crimes
• Hays Code
• Health and Human Services Dept.
• Healthy Marriage Act (Proposed)
• Healthy Marriage Initiative
• Henry Miller
• Homosexuality
• Hugh Hefner
• Human Rights Campaign
• Human Trafficking
• Illegitimacy
• Illustration Credits
• In Vitro Fertilization
• Incest
• Indecent Exposure
• Infertility
• Internet
• Jacobellis v. Ohio
• Judiciary
• Kansas v. Hendricks
• Larry Flynt
• Lawrence v. Texas
• Lenny Bruce
• Lesbians
• Lewd [Behavior] Conduct
• Lewd Behavior
• Live Shows
• Local Government
• Louise Brown
• Magazines
• Margaret Sanger
• Marriage
• Mary Calderone
• Maternity
• Media
• Megan’s Law
• Military
• Military Personnel Rights
• Miller v. California
• Minor v. Happersett
• Miscegenation
• Model Penal Code
• Morality
• Motherhood
• Motion Pictures
• Muller v. Oregon
• NARAL Pro-Choice America
• National Abortion Rights Action League
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
• National Organization for Women
• National Sex Offender Registry
• Naturalism
• Ninth Amendment
• Nudity
• Obscene Language
• Obscenity
• Office on Violence Against Women
• Oriented Businesses
• Palimony
• Pandering
• Parental Advisories
• Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton
• Paternity
• Pedophile
• Perversion
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
• Polygamy
• Polyparenting
• Pornography
• Post Marital Agreements
• Pregnancy
• Pregnancy
• Premarital Sex
• Prenuptial (Premarital) Agreements
• Prenuptial Agreements
• President
• President’s Council on Bioethics
• Prisoners
• Prisoners’ Rights
• Privacy
• Privacy
• Procreation
• Prostitution
• Prurient Interest
• Ralph Ginsberg
• Rape
• Rape Shield Laws
• Religion
• Reproductive Rights
• Reproductive Rights
• Reverse Discrimination
• Rights of the Unborn
• Roe v. Wade
• Roth v. United States
• Same-sex Divorce
• Same-Sex Marriage
• Separation
• Sex Clubs
• Sex Crimes (“Sex Offenses”)
• Sex Education
• Sex Offenders
• Sex Offenses
• Sex Therapy
• Sexism
• Sexology
• Sexual Assault
• Sexual Battery
• Sexual Enhancement
• Sexual Harassment
• Sexual Minorities
• Sexual Orientation
• Sexual Predator
• Sexual Revolution
• Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
• Sexually Oriented Businesses
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Single-Sex Education
• Slavery
• Sodomy
• Spousal Duties
• Spousal Rights
• Stalking
• State and Local Government
• State Government
• Statutory Rape
• Stem Cell Research
• Stem-Cell Research and Cloning
• Sterilization
• Surgeon General of the United States
• Surrogate Motherhood
• Susan B. Anthony
• Teenagers
• Telephone Sex
• Television
• The Internet
• Title IX
• Trafficking
• Transgenderism
• Transsexualism
• Transvestism
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• United States v. Virginia
• Unmarried Cohabitants
• Unmarried Parents
• Unwed Mothers
• Victims’ Rights
• Violence Against Women Act
• Voyeurism
• William O. Douglas
• Williams v. Morgan
• Williams v.North Carolina
• Women’s Rights
• Zoning
• Zoning Laws

Resources

• Sexual Offense
• Sexual Behavior
• Crimes Against Sexual Morality
• Sexual Harassment Law
• Encyclopedia of Education Law

Further Reading

• Kling, Samuel G., (1910-), Sexual behavior and the law, New York, Pocket Books
• Sexual behavior and the law, Slovenko, Ralph (1965)
• Law and morality : the Wisconsin statutes on consensual sexual behavior, Bochert, Linda H., (1949-) (1973)
• Law and the behavioral sciences, Friedman, Lawrence M. (1930-)(1969)
• Human reproduction and sexual behavior, Lloyd, Charles W. (1964)
• Contemporary sexual behavior: critical issues in the 1970s. Edited by Joseph Zubin and John Money, American Psychopathological Association. Money, John, 1921-2006. Zubin, Joseph, 1900-1990.
• Reproductive behavior. Edited by William Montagna and William A. Sadler. Conference on Reproductive Behavior, Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Sadler, William A. Montagna, William. Oregon Regional Primate Research Center. Center for Population Research (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development), 1974