Illicit and Unnatural Practices: The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland Since 1900

ISBN-13: 9781474441193 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Roger Davidson

Opis

Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinating insight into the relationship between the law, sex, and society in modern Scotland.

Spis treści

List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. ‘Venereal Trouble’: The Case of ‘Professor’ Abraham Eastburn; 3. ‘This Pernicious Delusion’: Law, Medicine and Child Sexual Abuse; 4. ‘Unnatural Carnal Connection’: Bestiality and the Law in Early-Twentieth-Century Scotland; 5. ‘There’s the Man who Shifts the Babies’: Abortion in the Scottish High Court, 1900?30; 6. ‘An Open and Notorious House of Lewdness’: Dora Noyce and the Danube Street Brothel; 7. Cure or Confinement?: Law, Medicine and the Treatment of Homosexual Offenders in Scotland, 1950?80; 8. ‘Liable or Likely to Deprave and Corrupt the Morals of the Lieges’: Sex Shops and Moral Panic in Late-Twentieth-Century Scotland; 9. ‘Culpable and Reckless Conduct’: Criminalising the Transmission of HIV in Scotland, 1983?2014; 10. Conclusion; Sources and Select Bibliography; Index