Policing Sexuality: The Mann ACT and the Making of the FBI by Jessica R. Pliley

Policing Sexuality: The Mann ACT and the Making of the FBI

Jessica R. Pliley

304 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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America's first anti-sex trafficking law, the 1910 Mann Act, made it illegal to transport women over state lines for prostitution "or any other immoral purpose." It was meant to protect women and girls from being seduced or sold into sexual slaver...

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