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]
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,
ISBN9780415446266
Sarah D. Goode (2011), Paedophiles in society: reflecting on sexuality, abuse and hope, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
ISBN9780230271883
^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.
JSTOR23524433.
S2CID143807077.
^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.
S2CID143905017.
^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.
S2CID146648766.
^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.
S2CID216088297.