Charity Organization Society Of The City Of New York Committee On Crim

The Forgotten Army

• Author(s): Charity Organization Society of the City of New York. Committee on Criminal Courts

• Categories: Crime

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1918
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Proceedings of the Attorney General's Conference on Crime Held December 10-13, 1934, in Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C.

• Categories: Crime

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1936
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Proceedings of the Attorney General's Conference on Crime

• Author(s): United States. Dept. of Justice

• Categories: Crime

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1934
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Proceedings of the Attorney General's Conference on Crime, Held December 10-13, 1934 in Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C..

• Author(s): United States. Department of Justice

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1936
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Pursuing Johns

• Author(s): Thomas C. Mackey

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2005
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• Publisher: Ohio State University Press

In Pursuing Johns, Thomas C. Mackey studies the New York Committee of Fourteen and its members' attempts to influence vagrancy laws in early-20th-century New York City as a way to criminalize men's patronizing of female prostitutes. It sought out and prosecuted the city's immoral hotels, unlicensed bars, opium dens, disorderly houses, and prostitutes. It did so because of the threats to individual "character" such places presented. In the early 1920s, led by Frederick Whitin, the Committee thought that the time had arrived to prosecute the men who patronized prostitutes through what modern parlance calls a "john's law." After a notorious test case failed to convict a philandering millionaire...