Sin and Crime

When, as a teenage boy during the First World War, the author Beverley Nichols (1898–1983) was found reading Oscar Wilde’sThe Picture of Dorian Grayby his father, it was as if he had been “caught in an illicit act”: his father “spat on the book and tore the pages with his teeth. ‘Oscar Wilde! To thi...

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Behavioral sciences
Christianity
Cognitive psychology
Criminal justice
Criminal law
Criminal punishment
Desire
Emotion
Emotional states
Engineering
Exile
Gays and lesbians
Gender studies
Homosexual relationships
Homosexuality
Human behavior
Human populations
Human sexual behavior
Interpersonal relations
Law
Male homosexuality
Men
Persons
Population studies
Psychology
Religion
Sexual orientation
Sexual relations
Social psychology
Social sciences
Sodomy
Spiritual belief systems
Transportation
Travel
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