Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960 (Studies in Legal History)

by StephenRobertson (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $45.76

  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.