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CONTROLLING VICE: REGULATING BROTHEL PROSTITUTION IN ST. P (HISTORY CRIME & CRIMINAL JUS)

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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 as a way to operate illegal enterprises. This arrangement was open; throughout this period, the city’s newspapers published hundreds of articles about vice and its regulation.

Joel Best claims that this sort of informal regulation in St. Paul was common in the late nineteenth century and was far more typical than the better known but brief experiment with legalization tried in St. Louis. With few exceptions, the usual approach to these issues of social regulate has been to treat informal regulation as a form of corruption, but Best’s view is that St. Paul’s arrangement exposes the assumption that the criminal justice system should are searching for to eradicate crime. He maintains that other policies are imaginable.

In a book that integrates history and sociology, the creator has reconstructed the municipal court records for most of 1865-83, the use of newspaper articles, an arrest ledger kept by the St. Paul police, and municipal court dockets. He has been able to trace which madams operated brothels and the identities of among the prostitutes who lived and worked in them.

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