caa a22 4500 60546278X CHVBK 20210128100250.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10991-015-9158-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10991-015-9158-7 Rowbotham Judith School of Law, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK aut A Deception on the Public: The Real Scandal of Boulton and Park [Elektronische Daten] [Judith Rowbotham] The Boulton and Park case has become one of the cause célèbre regularly cited by historians and lawyers studying the regulation of sexuality. The trial, and the role of expert witnesses in the ultimate decision to acquit, has been meticulously picked over. Rather less attention has been paid to the inception of the prosecution and the way in which that frames the subsequent trial in May 1871. Placing that trial in a wider socio-legal perspective reveals how masquerading as females regarded by the Victorian court process and the media in the light of deception, and contemporary fears about the nature of that deception which went beyond the ‘wickedness' of sexual deviance into other areas of criminality. It also leads to a suggestion that one of the most significant thing, for contemporaries, about the episode was the delaying of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1879, setting up the office of the Public Prosecutor, given the perceived failure of the Treasury Solicitor's Department in this case. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Cross-dressing nationallicence Criminality and sexuality nationallicence Prosecution in the public interest nationallicence Boulton and Park nationallicence Liverpool Law Review Springer Netherlands 36/2(2015-08-01), 123-145 0144-932X 36:2<123 2015 36 10991 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-015-9158-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-015-9158-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rowbotham Judith School of Law, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Liverpool Law Review Springer Netherlands 36/2(2015-08-01), 123-145 0144-932X 36:2<123 2015 36 10991