Learning on ScreenSex and the Law
- Synopsis
- Geoffrey Nice talks about sex and the law with reference to the Jimmy Savile case and those of other celebrities whose crimes have recently come to light. He wonders whether in the light of these revelations we should ask ourselves whether the sexual and social freedoms of the 1960s were necessarily a good thing and re-evaluate the campaigning efforts of Mary Whitehouse whose sense that civilisation was fragile was, according to Nice, with hindsight a better evaluation of the times than the sense that individual freedom was paramount.
- Series
- Law and Lawyers: Not All Bad?
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Subjects
- Law
- Keywords
- child abuse; sexual abuse; social change; Whitehouse, Mary; Savile, Jimmy (1926-2011)
Online availability
- URI
- http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/sex-and-the-law
- Price
- free
- Delivery
- Streamed/Download
Credits
- Contributor
- Geoffrey Nice
Distributor
- Name
Gresham College
- enquiries@gresham.ac.uk
- Web
- http://www.gresham.ac.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7831 0575
- Fax
- 020 7831 5208
- Address
- Barnard’s Inn Hall
Holborn
London EC1N 2HH
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