Pursuing Johns : Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920-1930 /
"Mackey's contribution to the literature is unique. Instead of looking at how vice commissions targeted female prostitutes or the commerce supporting and surrounding them, Mackey concentrates on how men were scrutinized."--Jacket
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2005.
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תוכן הענינים:
- "To live correctly": themes and the significance of character
- "Only the Barbarian waits": New York City's committee of fourteen
- Drifted: feminist reformers and prostitution's changes in the twenties
- "The time has come": vagrancy law, police procedure, and proceeding against the customers
- People v. Edward N. Breitung: not the "simply immoral"
- "To make it an offense for a man to buy what the prostitute has to sell": public policy debates
- "The fruitful mother of blackmail": hope and opposition to the customer amendment
- "Out principles demand": hearings and disappointments
- "Mr. Veiller again prevailed": disappointment and death
- Reflection on a reform.