 | Kim Emery - 2002 - 212 pàgines
...English case for precedent. The ruling in Regina v. Hicklin held that the test of obscenity should be "whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave or corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and who might come into contact with... | |
 | Christopher Jon Nowlin - 2003 - 312 pàgines
...formulation states that "the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscene is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall": R. v. Hicklin, at 369. 6 United States v. Harmon, at 417-18.... | |
 | Amy Villarejo - 2003 - 254 pàgines
...common law rule, "the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscene is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall" (Regina v. Hicklin). The test, according to the Gathings Committee... | |
 | Nan Levinson - 2003 - 388 pàgines
...an 1868 English case that focused on the effect of sexual material: specifically, whether it tended "to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall" — that is, the lower classes. (This posed a problem to our American... | |
 | Miriam Drake - 2003 - 922 pàgines
...(1868) in London, Justice Alexander Cockburn ruled that the test for obscenity under the statute was ' 'whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt." The test of literary morality was what a father could read aloud in his own home. As a result of this... | |
 | James A. Curry, Richard B. Riley, Richard M. Battistoni - 2003 - 660 pàgines
...legally obscene, a British judge said that the test of obscenity should be whether the material tends to "deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences."19 Although there was no attempt to define "immoral influences," the Hicklin rule would... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 2003 - 796 pàgines
...and with the standard of education. The legal test, as given by Chief Justice Cockburn in 1868, is "whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave or corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Jean Bobby Noble - 2010 - 225 pàgines
...supposedly authorized to watch over. Judge Biron interprets his task as follows: "the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as...open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall" ("Judgement," 2). Moreover, Judge Biron reacts strongly to how... | |
 | Marita Sturken, Douglas Thomas, Sandra Ball-Rokeach - 2004 - 388 pàgines
...Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, who ruled in 1868 (Regina v. Hicklin) that, "the test of obscenity is this: whether the tendency of the matter charged as...open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." 19 Just a few years later, in the United States, Anthony Comstock... | |
 | Penny Farfan - 2004 - 194 pàgines
...inherent wrong"3* and that, as specified in the Hicklin doctrine of 1868, "'The test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as...open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.'"33 Thus, Gilmore argues, "throughout its historical development... | |
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I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. 
