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Crimes against children : sexual violence and legal culture in New York City, 1880-1960 /
"This book explores sex crimes against children from their rise to prominence in the 1850s until 1960, by which time legal officials, jurors, and witnesses no longer showed a particular concern with child victims. It is first and foremost a book about the prosecution of sex crime in New York Ci...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2005]
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| Colección: | Studies in legal history.
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| Temas: |
Child sexual abuse
> New York (State)
> New York
> Trials, litigation, etc.
> History
> 19th century.
Child sexual abuse
> New York (State)
> New York
> Trials, litigation, etc.
> History
> 20th century.
Sexually abused children
> Legal status, laws, etc.
> New York (State)
> New York
> History
> 19th century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book explores sex crimes against children from their rise to prominence in the 1850s until 1960, by which time legal officials, jurors, and witnesses no longer showed a particular concern with child victims. It is first and foremost a book about the prosecution of sex crime in New York City, providing the first large-scale longitudinal study of how a twentieth-century American criminal court, and American society in general, dealt with and understood cases of sexual violence. As many, if not more, sexual assaults than the ones I have researched were never reported, let alone prosecuted in the courts. This book, however, focuses on the reported cases around which American attitudes toward sexual violence took shape"--Introduction, page 2 Stephen Robertson provides a study of how American criminal courts dealt with the prosecution of sexual violence against children. His study, based on the previously unexamined files of the New York County district attorney's office, reveals the importance of child sexuality and sex crimes in twentieth-century American culture. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 337 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references pages (309-326) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807876488 9780807876480 0807829323 9780807829325 |