Knowledge of Evil

This book documents the enduring involvement of children in the commercial sex trade in twentieth-century England. The authors argue that child prostitution needs to be understood within a broader context of child abuse, and provide evidence that indicates the circumstances which have led young people into prostitution over the last hundred years amount, at worst, to physical or psychological abuse or neglect, and at best as the result of limited choice.

List of contents

Foreword  1. Introduction - concepts and contexts  2. Debating nineteenth-century child prostitution  3. Edwardian England and the ideal family  4. War and the 1920s  5. Prostitution, child abuse and feminism during the 1920s and 1930s  6. Reconstruction and a new society  7. The rediscovery of child prostitution during the 1960s and 1970s  8. Child prostitution during the 1980s and 1990s

About the author

Alyson Brown is a Reader in History at Edge Hill University. She has published numerous chapters and articles, including 'The Amazing Mutiny at the Dartmoor Convice Prison' in the British Journal of Criminology (2007).
David Barrett is Professor of Applied Social Studies in the School of Applied Social Science, Bedfordshire University. He is an international authority on young people who are sexually exploited through the sex industry.

Product details

• Authors: David Barrett, Barrett David, Alyson Brown, Brown Alyson
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9781903240632
• ISBN: 978-1-903240-63-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 600 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; England, 20th Century, LAW / Jurisprudence, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jurisprudence & general issues, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Ethical Issues: Prostitution & Sex Industry, Ethical issues and debates, Child abuse, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, Jurisprudence and general issues