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Vice patrol : cops, courts, and the struggle over urban gay life before Stonewall /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lvovsky, Anna (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Male homosexuality > United States > History > 20th century.
Gays > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Vice control > United States > History > 20th century.
Law enforcement > United States > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • When anyone can tell : liquor codes, gay bars, and the politics of common sense
  • Expert witnesses and the struggle for public authority over homosexuality
  • Plainclothes decoys and the battle over the limits of criminal justice
  • Passing as deviant : gay culture and the rise of ethnographic policing
  • Peepholes and perverts : clandestine surveillance and the enigma of the cruiser
  • The popular press and the gay world
  • Epilogue.