Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883
(Part of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice Series)
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For eighteen years following the Civil War, the police in St. Paul, Minnesota, informally regulated brothel prostitution. Each month, the madams who ran the brothels were charged with keeping houses of ill fame and fined in the city's municipal court. In effect, they were paying licensing fees in order to operate illegal enterprises. This arrangement was open; during this period, the city's newspapers published hundreds of articles about vice and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0814250076
ISBN13:9780814250075
Release Date:January 2021
Publisher:Ohio State University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"
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