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Title: Crime and Postwar Culture


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Crime and Postwar Culture
  • I. Post-war Affluence Anxiety
  • A. Happy Days
  • B. Fears
  • II. Drug wars
  • A. Prior law
  • B. The Pharmaceutical Revolution
  • C. Clampdown
  • Juvenile Delinquency
  • A. Problem
  • B. Causes
  • IV. Family
  • A. Sexual Knowledge
  • B. Cultural Revolution
  • Repression
  • A. Censorship
  • B. Changing law

2
Happy Days
  • Economic growth
  • Great compression
  • Domesticity
  • Baby boom, 1950-59
  • 18.6 pop. growth
  • 10 teen pregnancy rate
  • Political consensus
  • Anti-communism
  • Social safety net

3
Anxiety
  • Economy
  • War
  • Individuality
  • Race
  • Gender

4
Juvenile Delinquency
  • Baby boom
  • Youth culture
  • Anxiety about crime

Elvis
5
Causes
  • Missing men
  • WWII
  • Culture
  • Comic books

6
Prior drug law
  • Tariffs
  • 1870s first local laws barring opium smoking
  • 1914 Harrison Act
  • 1922 Narcotic Drug Import and Export Act

7
Pharmaceutical Revolution
  • 1950s
  • One of every three prescriptions was for a
    tranquilizer

8
Clampdown
  • Regulatory mindset
  • Pharmaceuticals versus narcotics
  • But emphasis on seizure, arrests, not treatment

Federal narcotics agents seize 500,000 in drugs,
Memphis 1954
9
Sexuality
  • Science
  • Kinsey (1948)
  • Pop Culture
  • Playboy (1954)
  • High art
  • Joyce
  • Lawrence
  • Miller
  • Burroughs

10
Censorship
Postmaster Summerfield
Dr. Frederic Wertham
Steve Allen
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Freedom of Speech
  • Redeeming social value
  • Intent of writer
  • Difference between speech and action
  • Effect on reader
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