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

by Stephen Robertson

Book Overview

In the first half of the twentieth century, Americans' intense concern with sex crimes against children led to a wave of public discussion, legislative action, and criminal prosecution. Stephen Robertson provides the first large-scale, long-term study of how American criminal courts dealt with the prosecution of sexual violence against children.

Robertson describes how the nineteenth-century approach to childhood as a single phase of innocence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855960
• ISBN13: 9780807855966
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"