Skip to main content

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

align
annotate
download

Concept information

... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > social history of crime > documents and acts shaping the American system of criminal justice > Internal Security Act of 1950

Preferred term

Internal Security Act of 1950  

Definition

  • The Internal Security Act of 1950, also referred to as the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950 and the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, became law on September 22, 1950, by congressional resolution. The act required that all communist and related political organizations be registered with the U.S. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Internal Security Act of 1950]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GP3HXXFD-N

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD