For business & pleasure : red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 /
Keire, Mara L.(Mara Laura),1967-
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: It's a wonderful life: red-light districts and anti-vice reform -- Segregating vice, 1890-1909 -- The sporting world, 1890-1917 -- Race, riots, and red-light districts, 1906-1910 -- The vice trust: a reinterpretation of the white slavery scare, 1907-1917 -- The war on vice, 1910-1919 -- The syndicate: prohibition and the rise of organized crime, 1919-1933 -- Conclusion: progressivism, prohibition, and policy options.
Red-light districts
Prostitution
Vice control