RT Book
T1 Vice patrol: cops, courts, and the struggle over urban gay life before stonewall
T2 De Gruyter eBook-Paket Rechtswissenschaften
A1 Lvovsky, Anna
LA English
PP Chicago
PB University of Chicago Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1810848717
AB Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 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
AB 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
CN HQ76.3.U6
SN 9780226769813
K1 Gays : Legal status, laws, etc : United States
K1 Law Enforcement : United States : History : 20th century
K1 Male homosexuality : United States : History : 20th century
K1 Vice control : United States : History : 20th century
K1 LAW / General
K1 Geschichte 1930-1970 : Geschichte 1930-1970 : USA : Homosexueller
DO 10.7208/9780226769813