| Description |
1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Chronicles how local police and criminal justice systems intruded on gay individuals, criminalizing, profiling, surveilling, and prosecuting them from the 1930's through the 1960's. Anna Lvovsky details the progression of enforcement strategies through the targeting of gay-friendly bars by liquor boards, enticement of sexual overtures by plainclothes police decoys, and surveilling of public bathrooms via peepholes and two-way mirrors to catch someone "in the act." Lvovsky shows how the use of tactics indistinguishable from entrapment to criminalize homosexual men in public and private spaces produced charges brought forward and disputed by attorneys and evidence that had to stand before judges, who at times intervened against punitive policies. In Vice Patrol the author demonstrates how developments in the psychological, medical, and sociological handling of homosexuality filtered into police stations, courthouses, and the wider culture. |
| Contents |
When anyone can tell -- Expert witnesses on trial -- Plainclothes decoys and the limits of criminal justice -- The rise of ethnographic policing -- Peepholes and perverts -- The popular press and the gay world -- Epilogue. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Male homosexuality -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Vice control -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Law enforcement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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LAW / General. |
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Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Law enforcement. |
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Male homosexuality. |
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Vice control. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Title |
Cops, courts, and the struggle over urban gay life before Stonewall |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Lvovsky, Anna. Vice patrol. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 9780226769646 (DLC) 2020045745 (OCoLC)1199329004 |
| ISBN |
9780226769813 (electronic book) |
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022676981X (electronic book) |
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9780226769646 (hardcover) |
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022676964X (hardcover) |
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9780226769783 (paperback) |
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022676978X (paperback |
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