Title Crimes against children : sexual violence and legal culture in New York City, 1880-1960 / Stephen Robertson.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Description	xii, 337 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Studies in legal history
	Studies in legal history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references page (309-326) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- To rescue the developing child -- The act of violence on a child of tender years -- The crime against nature -- To throw absolute protection around females of less than sixteen years of age -- Making right a girl's ruin -- Making adolescents -- Crimes against children -- Child molestation -- Sex play -- Separating the men from the boys -- Conclusion.
Subject	Child sexual abuse -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
	Child sexual abuse.
	New York (State) -- New York.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Child sexual abuse -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
	Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
	Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
	Prosecution -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
	Prosecution.
	Prosecution -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
	Children.
ISBN	0807855960 paperback alkaline paper
	0807829323 cloth alkaline paper