Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: In 1984, the U.S. Congress enacted the Child Protection Act, which made it a crime to purchase sexually explicit images of children.Prior to the Act's passage, a man named Keith Jacobson had mail-ordered two Bare Boys magazines from a bookstore.His name remained on the bookstore's mailing list, which U.S. Postal Service inspectors later acquired.Investigators undertook a plot to get Jacobson to purchase some freshly criminalized pornographic material.Posing as members of fabricated organizations, they sent Jacobson several letters that decried censorship and an "outdated puritan morality," fueled by enemies of free expression.After repeated offers to sell Jacobson child pornography, he placed an order with them, and was
Source: Journal of Political Philosophy
DOI: 10.1111/jopp.12060
Author: Jeffrey W. Howard
Institution: University College London
Language: English
Topic: Law, Rights, and Freedoms
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1494467003