Vice Patrol
Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
- Contents

Introduction
1. When Anyone Can Tell: Liquor Codes, Gay Bars, and the Politics of Common Sense
2. Expert Witnesses and the Struggle for Public Authority over Homosexuality
3. Plainclothes Decoys and the Battle over the Limits of Criminal Justice
4. Passing as Deviant: Gay Culture and the Rise of Ethnographic Policing
5. Peepholes and Perverts: Clandestine Surveillance and the Enigma of the Cruiser
6. The Popular Press and the Gay World
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
History: American History
Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society | Legal History
Sociology: Criminology, Delinquency, Social Control
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