Vice Patrol
Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
Seiten
2021
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-76978-3 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-76978-3 (ISBN)
In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors.
In Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky chronicles this painful story, tracing the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. Lvovsky shows that the vice squads’ campaigns stood at the center of live debates about not only the law’s treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itself—debates that had often unexpected effects on the gay community’s rights and freedoms. Examining those battles, Vice Patrol enriches understandings of the regulation of queer life in the twentieth century and disputes about police power that continue today.
In Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky chronicles this painful story, tracing the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. Lvovsky shows that the vice squads’ campaigns stood at the center of live debates about not only the law’s treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itself—debates that had often unexpected effects on the gay community’s rights and freedoms. Examining those battles, Vice Patrol enriches understandings of the regulation of queer life in the twentieth century and disputes about police power that continue today.
Anna Lvovsky is assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School.
List of Illustrations
INTRODUCTION
ONE / When Anyone Can Tell
TWO / Expert Witnesses on Trial
THREE / Plainclothes Decoys and the Limits of Criminal Justice
FOUR / The Rise of Ethnographic Policing
FIVE / Peepholes and Perverts
SIX / The Popular Press and the Gay World
EPILOGUE
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.06.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16 halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-76978-X / 022676978X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-76978-3 / 9780226769783 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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