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Controlling Vice

Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St.Paul, 1865-83

Joel Best
Adler, Jeffrey S. Johnson, David R.

ISBN: 9780814250075
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Ohio State University Press


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For 18 years following the Civil War, the police in St Paul, Minnesota, informally regulated brothel prostitution. Integrating history and sociology, the author suggests that this informal regulation challenges the assumption that the criminal justice system must seek to eradicate crime.

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For 18 years following the Civil War, the police in St Paul, Minnesota, informally regulated brothel prostitution. Integrating history and sociology, the author suggests that this informal regulation challenges the assumption that the criminal justice system must seek to eradicate crime.
 
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