HIST 3130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Moral Panic, Incest Taboo, Pubic Hair
9 Aug 2016
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Taking nellie johnson"s fingerprints: prostitutes and legal identity in. Early twentieth-century london julia a. laite, 2008: at 10:30 on the cold and drizzly evening of the 18th of december 1920, d division police constables james bull and willie watson were patrolling their familiar beat along the. Watson the wrong file, and that the criminal record the represented in court as nellie. Division was noticed; the metropolitan police had long and bitter memories of the numerous prostitution-related scandals corruption, blackmailing, bribery, wrongful, arrest and perjury which had plagued the force for over 40 years. In contrast to the historical attention given to the contagious diseases (cd) acts, the solicitation laws are seriously under-examined yet they were put in place prior to the cd. 1918, in the trial of r. v de munck, almost a 100 years after the term was first applied to certain women as a legal label in addition, the de munck was being charged under the.
