Concept information
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criminology and criminal justice
criminology
social history of crime
state and federal court cases
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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Roth v. United States
Definition
- For advertising and selling a magazine containing erotic literature and pictures of people in the nude, Samuel Roth (1893–1974) was convicted of the crime of sending pornographic or obscene material through the mail. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 against his appeal in Roth v. United States (1957), its opinion written by Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. [Source: Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law; Roth v. United States]
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Date
- 1957
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Roth_v._United_States
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