Pursuing Johns: Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920-1930

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Ohio State University Press, 2005 - 297 頁
In 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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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
The Time Has Come Vagrancy Law Police Procedure and Proceeding against the Customers
55
People v Edward N Breitung Not the Simply Immoral
81
To Make It an Offense for a Man to Buy What the Prostitute Has To Sell Public Policy Debates
107
The Fruitful Mother of Blackmail Hope and Opposition to the Customer Amendment
128
Our Principles Demand Hearings and Disappointments
156
Mr Veiller Again Prevailed Disappointment and Death
180
Reflection on a Reform
202
Notes
217
The People 8 Barb N Y 603 1850
247
Bibliography
273
Index
289
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