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Author Robertson, Stephen (Stephen Murray), author.

Title Crimes against children : sexual violence and legal culture in New York City, 1880-1960 / Stephen Robertson
Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 337 pages)
Series Studies in legal history
Studies in legal history.
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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references pages (309-326) and index
Notes English
Print version record; online resource viewed September 9, 2016
Subject 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
Sexually abused children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
Prosecution -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
Prosecution -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
Sex crimes -- United States -- Attitudes
Child sexual abuse -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
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 -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Child sexual abuse
Prosecution
Sexually abused children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Kindesmisshandlung
New York (State) -- New York
United States
New York Staat
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0807876488
9780807876480
0807829323
9780807829325
Other Titles Sexual violence and legal culture in New York City, 1880-1960