Crimes against children : sexual violence and legal culture in New York City, 1880-1960 / Stephen Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Stephen (Stephen Murray), author.

Series:

Studies in legal history.

Studies in legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child sexual abuse--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.

Child sexual abuse.

Child sexual abuse--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Children--Legal status, laws, etc--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.

Children.

Children--Legal status, laws, etc--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Prosecution--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.

Prosecution.

Prosecution--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

To rescue the developing child

The act of violence on a child of tender years

The crime against nature

To throw absolute protection around females of less than sixteen years of age

Making right a girl's ruin

Making adolescents

Crimes against children

Child molestation

Sex play

Separating the men from the boys

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references pages ([309]-326) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890873217

9780807876480

0807876488

OCLC:

476237387