Urban Vice Regulation Compared: How the Progressive Era's Undercover Tactics Underwrote American Challenges to French Regulation

By: Ross, Jacqueline E.

This book uses the early twentieth century surveillance reports of urban vice reformers in New York, Chicago, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as well as the US vice report for the League of Nations' Special Body on Trafficking in Women and Children (from 1927) and French police memoirs, treatises, and histories of vice enforcement in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Paris to highlight the way in which American reliance on undercover...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031528700
• ISBN13: 9783031528705
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 69 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"