Sex, Murder, & the Unwritten Law: Gender and Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style by Bill Neal

Sex, Murder, & the Unwritten Law: Gender and Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style

American Liberty & Justice

Bill Neal

280 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology true crime emotional reflective medium-paced
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From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed much too merciful to suit most southerners, who believed in direct and personal redress of su...

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