The Politics of Obscenity: Group Litigation in a Time of Legal Change

by Joseph F. Kobylka

This study is an empirical analysis of how the fluctuating legal environment in the courts surrounding obscenity litigation over a thirty year period is an appropriate vehicle with which to demonstrate the dynamics of widespread group involvement in the judicial process. Joseph F. Kobylka traces how the development of the obscenity law from the 1957 Roth v. United States decision, which established the proscription of obscenity through its libertarian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313268827
• ISBN13: 9780313268823
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"