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Crimes against children : sexual violence and legal culture in New York City, 1880-1960
- Author
- Robertson, Stephen (Stephen Murray)
- Title
- Crimes against children : sexual violence and legal culture in New York City, 1880-1960 / Stephen Robertson.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
- Description
- xii, 337 p. ; 24 cm.
- Series
- Studies in legal history
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references p. ([309]-326) and index.
- Contents
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- 1: The age of innocence
- 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
- 2: The age of consent
- Making right a girl's ruin
- Making adolescents
- 3: The age of the child
- Crimes against children
- Child molestation
- Sex play
- 4: The age of the psychopath
- Separating the men from the boys.
- Kinsey subjects
- Violence. Child victims. Pedophilia--United States--New York City. Pedophilia laws--New York City. Sex laws.
- ISBN
- 0807829323 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807829325 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807855960 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780807855966 (pbk. : alk. paper)