| Review | Journal of Social History, 40.1

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Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960. By Stephen Robertson (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005).

Stephen Robertson's Crimes Against Children is an important book, and a significant contribution to the history of children and childhood. Because it is also ambitious in its range and complex in its argument, it deserves to be read by an array of historians concerned with matters of culture, society and law. By examining in depth and detail changes in how sexual crimes against children were defined, popularly understood, and implemented by juries and judges in New York City from the late nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century, Robertson also makes a valuable contribution to the important intersection among law, sexuality, and psychiatry in the twentieth century. In seriously engaging this complex historical juncture, Robertson's book can be both extremely illuminating and occasionally frustrating.

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