Censorship

Legal Definition and Related Resources of Censorship

Meaning of Censorship

The regulation or curtailment of the freedom of speech and expression in any form in the interest of good morals and the preservation of peace and order . Any examination of thought or expression in order to prevent publication of objectionable material . farmer ‘s Ed. and Coop union of America v WDA Y, 360 U.S. 525, 79 S. Ct. 1302, 3 L.Ed.2d 1407.

Synonyms of Censorship

noun

  • abolition
  • abridgement
  • bar
  • blackout
  • block
  • blockage
  • bluepenciling
  • bowdlerization
  • cancellation
  • control
  • curb
  • deprivation
  • elimination
  • expurgation
  • forbidding
  • governmental control
  • hindrance
  • impediment
  • imposition of veil of secrecy
  • inhibition
  • limitation
  • news blackout
  • obliteration
  • prohibition
  • repression
  • restraint
  • restriction
  • rigid control
  • seal of secrecy
  • stifling
  • suppression
  • Associated Concepts: censorship ofbooks
  • censorship of films
  • censorship of First Amendment rights
  • censorship of mail
  • censorship of the theatre

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Legal English Vocabulary: Censorship in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term censorship into Spanish: censura (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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  • Art Law; Entertainment Law; Schools; School Districts; Academic freedom; Constitutional law; Civil liberties; Freedom; Totalitarianism.

    Democracy ; Liberty ; Power.

  • Further Reading

    Chafee, Zechariah, Jr. 1941 Free Speech in the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press. – Supersedes Chafee’s Freedom of Speech, 1920.

    Clyde, William M. 1934 The Struggle for the Freedom of the Press From Caxton to Cromwell. St. Andrews University Publications, No. 37. Oxford Univ. Press.

    Cogley, John 1956 Report on Blacklisting. 2 vols. New York: Fund for the Republic.

    Craig, Alec (1962) 1963 Suppressed Books: A History of the Conception of Literary Obscenity. New York: World. – First published as The Banned Books of England and Other Countries: A Study of the Conception of Literary Obscenity.

    Ernst, Morris L.; and Lindey, Alexander 1940 The Censor Marches On: Recent Milestones in the Administration of the Obscenity Law in the United States. New York: Doubleday. – Still a classic.

    Ernst, Morris L.; and Schwartz, Alan U. 1964 Censorship: The Search for the Obscene. New York: Macmillan.

    Faulk, J. Henry 1964 Fear on Trial. New York: Simon & Schuster.

    Gardiner, Harold, S. J. (1958) 1961 Catholic Viewpoint on Censorship. Rev. ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

    More Further Reading

    Gellhorn, Walter 1956 Individual Freedom and Governmental Restraints. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press.

    Haney, Robert W. 1960 Comstockery in America: Patterns of Censorship and Control. Boston: Beacon. – Superb analysis of America’s privately engendered drive for “morality” and “purity” in social action.

    Hart, H. L. A. 1963 Law, Liberty and Morality. Stanford Univ. Press.

    Kilpatrick, James J. 1960 The Smut Peddlers. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

    Lasswell, Harold 1930 Censorship. Volume 3, pages 290-294 in Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. New York: Macmillan.

    Levy, Leonard W. 1960 Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in Early American History. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press.

    Mc Cormick, John; and MacInnes, Mairi (editors) 1962 Versions of Censorship: An Anthology. Chicago, III.: Aldine.

    MacIver, Robert M. 1955 Academic Freedom in Our Time. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.

    Paul, James C. N.; and Schwartz, Murray L. 1961 Federal Censorship: Obscenity in the Mail. New York: Free Press.

    Censorship in Law Enforcement

    Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of censorship.

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    • Law Enforcement Officer
    • Police Officer
    • Law Enforcement Agency

    Further Reading

    Censorship, Sexual Behaviour and the Law

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    • Civil Liberty
    • Civil Right
    • Legal Right
    • Citizen Freedom
    • Political Liberty
    • Constitutional Right
    • Political Right
    • Freedom of Speech

    Hierarchical Display of Censorship

    Education And Communications > Communications > Communications policy > Control of communications
    Education And Communications > Information and information processing > Information policy > Access to information > Confidentiality
    Law > Rights and freedoms > Political rights > Freedom of communication
    Education And Communications > Information and information processing > Information policy > Law relating to information
    Law > Rights and freedoms > Political rights > Freedom of communication > Freedom of the press
    Law > Rights and freedoms > Political rights > Freedom of expression

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    Thesaurus of Censorship

    Education And Communications > Communications > Communications policy > Control of communications > Censorship
    Education And Communications > Information and information processing > Information policy > Access to information > Confidentiality > Censorship
    Law > Rights and freedoms > Political rights > Freedom of communication > Censorship
    Education And Communications > Information and information processing > Information policy > Law relating to information > Censorship
    Law > Rights and freedoms > Political rights > Freedom of communication > Freedom of the press > Censorship
    Law > Rights and freedoms > Political rights > Freedom of expression > Censorship

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