| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960. By Stephen Robertson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiv, 337 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2932-3. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5596-0.)

Stephen Robertson has written a complex analysis of what is sometimes mistakenly viewed as a simple subject. Commentators may speak generally of sex crimes against children as though they belong to a single, homogeneous category, but societal reactions are more complicated. Robertson makes this complexity apparent through a careful examination of New York County district attorney case files drawn at five-year intervals (his sample includes both cases dismissed by grand juries and those that went to court). It is important that these files include reports from New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) agents, who were charged with investigating and advising appropriate action in cases involving child victims.

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