'Hardened offenders', 'respectable prostitutes' and 'good-time girls' : the regulation, representation and experience of prostitution in interwar Liverpool
Journal: Keele Research Repository (Keele University)
Year: 2013

Between 1919 and 1936 proceedings for solicitation in Liverpool fell by 98%, with the city having gone from accounting for 17.5% of street prostitution in England and Wales to just 0.3% between these years. So infrequent were arrests against street prostitution by the mid-thirties - for example, in 1934 there were just 10 arrests for solicitation compared to 733 in 1919 - that from 1937 solicitation and brothel offences appeared as an amalgamated category in the local criminal statistical return