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David J. Langum

Crossing over the Line

Legislating Morality and the Mann Act

324 pages, 13 halftones  6 x 9  © 1994

Cloth $27.00

ISBN: 9780226468808   Published December 1994

Paper $27.50

ISBN: 9780226468709   Published January 2007

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1: How Times Have Changed
2: Prostitutes, Progressives, and Moral Panic, 1907-1914
3: Early Enforcement, 1910-1916
4: Blackmail and Extortion
5: The Case of Caminetti v. United States
6: Pieces of the Caminetti Puzzle
7: The Morals Crusade, 1917-1928
8: The Focus Shifts, 1929-1943
9: The Crusade Sputters, 1944-1959
10: The Mann Act and the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s
11: The Collapse of Federal Standards of Morality
Appendix: White Slave Traffic Act [Mann Act] of 1910
Notes
Index
Subjects



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