Pursuing Johns: Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920-1930In Pursuing Johns, Thomas C. Mackey studies the New York Committee of Fourteen and its members' attempts to influence vagrancy laws in early-20th-century New York City as a way to criminalize men's patronizing of female prostitutes. It sought out and prosecuted the city's immoral hotels, unlicensed bars, opium dens, disorderly houses, and prostitutes. It did so because of the threats to individual "character" such places presented. In the early 1920s, led by Frederick Whitin, the Committee thought that the time had arrived to prosecute the men who patronized prostitutes through what modern parlance calls a "john's law." After a notorious test case failed to convict a philandering millionaire for vagrancy, the only statutory crime available to punish men who patronized prostitutes, the Committee lobbied for a change in the state's criminal law. In the process, this representative of traditional 19th-century purity reform allied with the National Women's Party, the advanced feminists of the 1920s. Their proposed "Customer Amendment" united the moral Right and the feminist Left in an effort to alter and use the state's criminal law to make men moral, defend their character, and improve New York City's overall morality. 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. Book jacket. |
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Minutes of the Committee on Codes of the Senate of the New York Legislature , 11 March 1924 , File “ Minutes - Hearing , 1924 , ” Box 56 “ Customer Laws , 1920s , " Committee of Fourteen Papers , Rare Books and Manuscripts Division ...
Minutes of the Committee on Codes of the Senate of the New York Legislature , 11 March 1924 , File “ Minutes - Hearing , 1924 , ” Box 56 “ Customer Laws , 1920s , " Committee of Fourteen Papers , Rare Books and Manuscripts Division ...
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Charles W. Appleton , 13 March 1924 , File “ 1924 , " Box 6 “ General Correspondence , 1924–1928 , ” Committee of Fourteen Papers . 26. Lawrence Veiller to Francis Louis Slade , 14 March 1924 , File “ L. V. Statement and Answer ...
Charles W. Appleton , 13 March 1924 , File “ 1924 , " Box 6 “ General Correspondence , 1924–1928 , ” Committee of Fourteen Papers . 26. Lawrence Veiller to Francis Louis Slade , 14 March 1924 , File “ L. V. Statement and Answer ...
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... see his obituary and related stories , New York Times , 30 March 1947 , 1 ; editorial , 31 March 1947 , 22 ; 31 March 1934 , 23 . 47. Frederick H. Whitin to James S. Cushman , 16 March 1926 , File “ Cushman , James S.
... see his obituary and related stories , New York Times , 30 March 1947 , 1 ; editorial , 31 March 1947 , 22 ; 31 March 1934 , 23 . 47. Frederick H. Whitin to James S. Cushman , 16 March 1926 , File “ Cushman , James S.
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To Live Correctly Themes and the Significance of Character | 1 |
Only the Barbarian Waits New York Citys Committee of Fourteen | 15 |
Drifted Feminist Reformers and Prostitutions Changes in the Twenties | 35 |
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