ISBN: 067400924X

Sexual blackmail first reached public notice in the late 18th century when laws against sodomy were exploited by the unscrupulous to extort money from those they could entrap. Angus McLar… Meer...

Sexual blackmail first reached public notice in the late 18th century when laws against sodomy were exploited by the unscrupulous to extort money from those they could entrap. Angus McLaren chronicles this parasitic crime, tracing its expansion in England and the United States through the Victorian era and into the first half of the 20th century. The labelling of certain sexual acts as disreputable, if not actually criminal - abortion, infidelity, prostitution, and homosexuality - armed would-be blackmailers and led to a crescendo of court cases and public scandals in the 1920s and 1930s. As the importance of sexual respectability was inflated, so too was the spectacle of its loss. americas,biographies,criminology,england,ethics and professional responsibility,europe,gay and lesbian,history,humanities,law True Crime, Harvard University Press<

ISBN: 9780674009240

Blackmail trials revealed that one's sexual reputation - that vague entity - had, in an increasingly commercial age, a definite monetary value. And as middle-class notions of sexual respe… Meer...

Blackmail trials revealed that one's sexual reputation - that vague entity - had, in an increasingly commercial age, a definite monetary value. And as middle-class notions of sexual respectability emerged, so in tandem did sexual blackmail. Chronicling the emergence of this parasitic form of crime casts a fresh light on the history of sexual assault, prostitution, divorce, abortion, and homosexuality and provides striking evidence that when morality was made the law's business it often became the criminal's business as well. Media > Book, [PU: Harvard University Press]<

ISBN: 9780674009240

Blackmail trials revealed that one's sexual reputation - that vague entity - had, in an increasingly commercial age, a definite monetary value. And as middle-class notions of sexual respe… Meer...

Blackmail trials revealed that one's sexual reputation - that vague entity - had, in an increasingly commercial age, a definite monetary value. And as middle-class notions of sexual respectability emerged, so in tandem did sexual blackmail. Chronicling the emergence of this parasitic form of crime casts a fresh light on the history of sexual assault, prostitution, divorce, abortion, and homosexuality and provides striking evidence that when morality was made the law's business it often became the criminal's business as well. Media > Book, [PU: Harvard University Press]<