Solicitation

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 106 AMS/B/04
  • Dates of Creation
      1824-1994
  • Physical Description
      11 A boxes

Scope and Content

Consists of papers and publications relating to:

- Vagrancy Act 1824 and other laws relating to street solicitation

- Solicitation laws in Scotland

- Criminal Law Amendment Bills 1917, 1918 and 1920

- Police Court Rota

- the Sir Almeric Fitzroy case in 1922

- Public Places (Order) Bills 1924, 1925, 1930, 1949

- Committee on Street Offences and witness reports from the Street Offences Committee 1928-1929

- Public Places (Order and Decency) Bill 1938

- Criminal Law Amendment Bill 1950

- Homosexuality and prostitution

- Street Offences Bill 1959

- Working Party on Street Offences Act 1959

- Criminal Law Revision Committee

- Street Offences Bill 1980

- Criminal Justice Bill 1982