Sexual Crime

Primary Sources

• A Brief explanation of the objects of a bill: "for the more effectual suppression of trading in seduction and prostitution, and for the better protection of females."

• Bodleian Library Collection of Ballads (Browse on themes such as Prostitution or Rape)

• William Acton, Prostitution (1857)

• James Greenwood, The Seven Curses of London (1869), Part IV, Chapters 16-19

• Frances Power Cobbe, 'Wife Torture in England', The Contemporary Review, 32 (Apr 1878), pp. 55-87
  
• William Logan, An exposure, from personal observation, of female prostitution in London, Leeds and Rochdale, and especially in the city of Glasgow : with remarks on the cause, extent, results and remedy of the evil (1843)

• W. T. Stead, 'Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon', Pall Mall Gazette, 1885 [see also the main site for further information on Stead and his journalism]

• Contagious Diseases Act (1864) and Summons from Contagious Diseases Act (1871)

• Debates on Contagious Diseases Acts and Reform. Hansard (search for Contagious Diseases Act)

• Remedies for the Wrongs of Woman (1844)
• Josephine Butler, The Constitution Violated (1871)
• The trials of Oscar Wilde (1895)

• Cases from the Old Bailey Online