Sarah D. Goode

Sarah Dalal Goode
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Sociologist, writer, businessperson
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Warwick (MA, PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-disciplinePaedophilia
InstitutionsUniversity of Winchester

Sarah Dalal Goode (born 1960) is a British sociologist, writer, and businessperson. She is a former Honorary Researcher and Coordinator of the Center for Research and Policy for the Study of Community Welfare at the University of Winchester.[1] She is the author of books including Understanding and addressing adult sexual attraction to children and Paedophiles in Society, in which she analyses the situation of paedophilia in contemporary Western society.[2][3]

Education

Goode trained as a paediatric occupational therapist, going on to study an MA in Sociological Research in Healthcare at the University of Warwick before studying for a PhD in Sociology.[4] Her PhD thesis, which she completed in 1999, was titled Substance-using mothers: taking control, losing control: The everyday lives of drug and alcohol-dependent mothers in West Midlands, and was supervised by Ellen Annandale.[5]

Career

Goode worked as a lecturer at the Warwick Medical School and was a senior lecturer at the University of Winchester, leading the Research and Policy Centre for the Study of Wellbeing in Communities.[4]

Her work was featured in a Channel Four documentary, and she has appeared in interviews on ITV and the BBC.[4][6]

Goode has praised the work of the Prevention Project Dunkelfeld and the Lucy Faithfull Foundation.[7] Whilst being critical of practices such as chemical castration and critical of current clinical psychiatric criteria, believing them to be too narrow.[8]

In her book Understanding and addressing adult sexual attraction to children, presents case studies based on interviews she conducted with pedophiles.[9][10] She uses these case studies, as well as previous studies to counteract some of the false beliefs and alarmism that developed in the late 1970s in the United States, and in the early 1980s in Europe.[11][12]

Books

  • Sarah D. Goode (2010), Understanding and addressing adult sexual attraction to children: a study of paedophiles in contemporary society, London/New York: Routledge, ISBN 9780415446266
  • Sarah D. Goode (2011), Paedophiles in society: reflecting on sexuality, abuse and hope, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9780230271883

References

  1. ^ "Dr Sarah D Goode". Huffpost. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  2. ^ Goode, Sarah (2010). Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-87374-8. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  3. ^ "Sarah D. Goode Palgrave-MacMillan". Archived from the original on 24 September 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ a b c "Dr Sarah Goode". psychotherapyUK. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  5. ^ Goode, Sarah Dalal (1999). Substance-using mothers: taking control, losing control: The everyday lives of drug and alcohol-dependent mothers in West Midlands (PhD thesis). University of Warwick. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  6. ^ Humphries, Steve (24 November 2014). "'I am a paedophile': Is our approach to sex offenders helping to create more victims?". The Independent. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  7. ^ Goode, Sarah (12 April 2016). "Chemical Castration - or Compassion for Paedophiles?". Huffpost. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  8. ^ Rickard, Diana (September 2013). "Reviewed Work: Paedophiles in Society: Reflecting on Sexuality, Abuse and Hope by Sarah D. Goode". Contemporary Sociology. 42 (5): 745–747. doi:10.1177/0094306113499713f. JSTOR 23524433. S2CID 143807077.
  9. ^ Smith, Clarissa (November 2010). "Review: Sarah D. Goode, Understanding and Addressing Sexual Attraction to Children: A Study of Paedophiles in Contemporary Society" (PDF). Participation: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. 7 (2): 396–398. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  10. ^ Terry, Karen (1 December 2011). "Book Review: Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children: A Study of Paedophiles in Contemporary Society". Psychology of Women Quarterly. 35 (4): 642–643. doi:10.1177/0361684311410542. S2CID 143905017.
  11. ^ Plummer, Ken (November 2010). "Understanding and addressing adult sexual attraction to children: a study of paedophiles in contemporary society". International Journal of Research & Method in Education. 33 (3): 318–319. doi:10.1080/1743727X.2010.512100. S2CID 146648766.
  12. ^ Quayle, Ethel (30 September 2010). "Book Reviews: Understanding and addressing adult sexual attraction to children". Journal of Sexual Aggression. 16 (3): 373–376. doi:10.1080/13552600.2010.504602. S2CID 216088297.