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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2023
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I want to begin by thanking the editors of Law and History Review for hosting this rich exchange on Vice Patrol, as well as Marie-Amélie George, Yvonne Pitts, and Steven Maynard for their generous and generative comments. Engaging so deeply and so rigorously with another scholar's project, connecting it to one's own research and even to one's own life experience, is an act of remarkable collegiality, and I am grateful for their time and reflections.
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- Forum: Anna Lvovsky's Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall
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1 George, supra, at 819.
2 Such critics have, for instance, suggested that moments of gay cultural visibility have appeased anxieties about sexual difference, flattered straight audiences’ sense of innate superiority, or perpetuated reductive stereotypes about queer communities. Edelman, Lee, Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory (New York: Routledge, 1994)Google Scholar; Herring, Scott, Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Bersani, Leo, Homos (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
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6 Ibid., 126–27, 128–32.
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8 Maynard, supra, at 829.
9 Sociologists have long documented the immense role of discretion and creative problem-solving among lower courts. Feeley, Malcolm, The Process is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal Court (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1979)Google Scholar; and Kohler-Hausmann, Issa, Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)Google Scholar. By focusing on the rare form of policing that regularly ensnared comparatively privileged defendants, Vice Patrol opens an unusual window on just how creative and lenient such problem-solving could be for the right beneficiaries.
10 My own such entanglements, in fact, have led me directly to Bernard Harcourt's projects in this space—small world. “Anna Lvovsky on Psychiatric Power, Medical Expertise, and Sexuality,” Foucault 13/13, October 10, 2015, http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/foucault1313/2015/10/30/foucault-413-anna-lvovsky-on-psychiatric-power-medical-expertise-and-sexuality/ (accessed January 30, 2023)
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