One Can Only Guess What Might Have Happened if the Worker Had Not Intervened in Time
The Liverpool Vigilance Association, moral vulnerability and Irish girls in early- to mid-twentieth-century Liverpool
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5155813 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samantha Caslin (0000-0001-5802-6543, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 254-273 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2015.1039351 |
| OpenAlex | W2249821893 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In early- and mid-twentieth century Britain, members of the Liverpool Vigilance Association (LVA) unofficially policed those who entered Liverpool's port and railway stations. The organisation feared that Irish female newcomers in particular lacked the social wherewithal necessary to maintain their perceived purity within a city such as Liverpool. Whilst the supposed innocence of Irish women was a respectable quality, the LVA believed it also made them vulnerable to exploitation. Consequently the young, Irish, female traveller was central to Liverpudlian social purists' notions of urban moral danger and their belief in the importance of preventative patrol work
Criminology · Innocence · Irish · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |