Crimes Against Children
Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960
In the first half of the twentieth century, Americans' intense concern with sex crimes against children led to a wave of public discussion, legislative action, and criminal prosecution. Stephen Robertson provides the first large-scale, long-term study of how American criminal courts dealt with the prosecution of sexual violence against children.Robertson describes how the nineteenth-century approach to childhood as a single phase of innocence began to shift at the end of the century to include several stages of childhood development, prompting reformers to create legal categories such as statutory rape and carnal abuse to protect children. Ho…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8078-5596-6
- EAN: 9780807855966
- Produktnummer: 1472039
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 541 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 541
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