Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act And The Making Of The Fbi

Jessica Pliley links the crusade against sex trafficking to the FBI’s growth into a formidable law agency that cooperated with states and municipalities in pursuit of offenders. The Bureau intervened in squabbles on behalf of men intent on monitoring their wives and daughters and imprisoned prostitutes while seldom prosecuting their male clients.

• | Author: Jessica R. Pliley
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674368118
• | ISBN-13: 9780674368118