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NOTES TO PAGES 57–68
11 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
Occasional Paper XVII, containing evidence submitted to
the Departmental Committee on Sex Offences, 1926.
12 Assaults on Children, op. cit.
13 The Shield, 1914–15.
14 Votes for Women, 1 January 1915.
15 Ibid., 8 January 1915.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid., 19 February 1915.
18 The Vote, 29 January 1910.
19 National Vigilance Association, Committee Minutes, 3
January 1889.
20 The Shield, December 1937.
21 Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, Report on the
10 Towns Enquiry, 1916.
22 The Vote, 14 May 1915.
23 Moral Reform Union, Annual Report, 1890, p.13.
24 Ibid.
25 M.Lowndes, Child Assault in England, London, Office of
The Englishwoman’ Ltd, n.d.
26 Ibid.
27 The Woman’s Leader, 6 March 1925.
28 Sheila Jeffreys, The Sexual Abuse of Children in the Home’,
in S.Friedman and E.Sarah (eds), On The Problem of Men,
London, The Women’s Press, 1982, p.63.
29 Parliamentary Debates, Commons, 12 July 1923.
30 The Shield, December 1937.
31 Votes for Women, 8 January 1915.
32 Assaults on Children, p.4.
33 Ibid., p.12.
34 Ibid., p.15.
35 Ibid., p.15.
36 Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, 1916, p.21.
37 Report of the Departmental Committee on Sexual Offences
against Young Persons, HMSO, Cmd 2561, 1925.
38 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
Occasional paper XVII, p.37.
39 Ibid., p.38.
40 Report of the Departmental Committee on Sexual Offences,
op. cit.
41 Evelynne Viner, ‘Protective Work among Children’, The
Shield, II, 1918, p.48.
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