This book is a broad-ranging history of moral regulation focusing on Britain and the US.

Professor Alan Hunt holds Chairs in Law and in Sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa and has published extensively on the critical legal studies movement

1. The theory and politics of moral regulation; 2. Compulsion to virtue: societies for the reformation of manners and the prosecution of vice; 3. Moral regulation from above: the vice society; 4. From sexual purity to social hygiene, 1870-1918; 5. Moral regulation in America; 6. Sexual purity, maternal feminism and class in late-Victorian Britain; 7. Traditionalizing moral regulation: making sense of contemporary moral politics.