Illicit and unnatural practices : the law, sex and society in Scotland since 1900 / Roger Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Roger, 1942- author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex crimes--Social aspects--Scotland--History--20th century.

Sex crimes.

Sex crimes--Scotland--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Illicit & Unnatural Practices

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinating insight into the relationship between the law, sex, and society in modern Scotland.

Contents:

Introduction

"Venereal trouble" : the case of "Professor" Abraham Eastburn

"This pernicious delusion" : law, medicine and child sexual abuse

"Unnatural carnal connection" : bestiality and the law in early-twentieth-century Scotland

"There's the man who shifts the babies" : abortion in the Scottish High Court, 1900-30

"An open and notorious house of lewdness" : Dora Noyce and the Danube Street Brothel

Cure or confinement? : law, medicine and the treatment of homosexual offenders in Scotland, 1950-80

"Liable or likely to deprave and corrupt the morals of the lieges" : sex shops and moral panic in late-twentieth-century Scotland

"Culpable and reckless conduct" : criminalising the transmission of HIV in Scotland, 1983-2014

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-4121-1

1-4744-5987-0

OCLC:

1312726461