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Civilizing Pornography: The Case For An Exclusive Obscenity Nuisance Statute, Doug Rendleman Mar 2014

Civilizing Pornography: The Case For An Exclusive Obscenity Nuisance Statute, Doug Rendleman

Doug Rendleman

Criminal penalties are increasingly perceived to be too severe for regulating obscenity. Professor Rendleman shares this perception and suggests that we replace criminal obscenity laws with an exclusive civil sanction utilizing injunctions. He proposes a comprehensive nuisance statute and discusses the various issues that arise in the equitable regulation of pornography.