RT Book
T1 Vice patrol: cops, courts, and the struggle over urban gay life before Stonewall
A1 Lvovsky, Anna
LA English
PP Chicago London
PB The University of Chicago Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1737291592
AB "Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life chronicles how local police and criminal justice systems intruded on gay individuals, criminalizing, profiling, surveilling, and prosecuting them from the 1930's through the 1960's. Anna Lvovsky details the progression of enforcement strategies through the targeting of gay-friendly bars by liquor boards, enticement of sexual overtures by plainclothes police decoys, and surveilling of public bathrooms via peepholes and two-way mirrors to catch someone "in the act." Lvovsky shows how the use of tactics indistinguishable from entrapment to criminalize homosexual men in public and private spaces produced charges brought forward and disputed by attorneys and evidence that had to stand before judges, who at times intervened against punitive policies. In Vice Patrol the author demonstrates how developments in the psychological, medical, and sociological handling of homosexuality filtered into police stations, courthouses, and the wider culture"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HQ76.3.U6
SN 9780226769646
SN 9780226769783
K1 Male homosexuality : United States : History : 20th century
K1 Gays : Legal status, laws, etc : United States
K1 Vice control : United States : History : 20th century
K1 Law Enforcement : United States : History : 20th century
K1 USA : Homosexueller : Geschichte 1930-1970