Recent Book: The Master Problem, the Social Evil
| Author | Ken Russell |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X8305600120 |
| Published date | 01 January 1983 |
| Date | 01 January 1983 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
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This topic examines statute law and
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JAMES
MARCHANT:
The Master Problem
New York: Garland Publishing Inc. $36.00.
The Social Evil
New York: Garland Publishing Inc. $20.00.
Both these books were originally
published in the early years of this
century and are re-printed as part of the
Collection
of
Major
Studies
of
Prostitution selected by Professor
Charles Winick of the City University,
New York.
Marchant, who was the Directorof the
National Council of Public Morals for
Race-Regeneration and Secretary of the
National Birth Rate Commission,
gathered the data for his international
survey from his contacts worldwide. The
object which the author set was to reach
the root causes of vice and suggest lasting
remedies.
The section dealing with the legal
situation is of historical interest in the
context of present day legislation in the
United States, Europe and the Far East.
In the autumn of 1900 New York was
startled to discover the spread of
prostitution in certain areas and
following a public meeting a Committee
of Fifteen was called into existence to
January 1983
examine the situation and Social Evil is
the report of
that
Committee.
An important cause of the spread of
prostitution at
that
time was a piece of
legislation affecting hotels, which had
nothing to do with the vice directly.
Section 31 of the Raines Law gave a
highly favoured position to hotels in the
sale of alcohol particularly on Sundays.
The effect of the legislation was for a
number of saloons to provide rooms so
that they could change their status to
hotels. The rooms soon became used for
the purposes of prostitution since bona
fide travellers stayed at the reputable
hotels.
This is a further example of legislation
in the Victimless Crime area having
much more serious consequencesthan the
legislators could envisage especially as
the Committee discovered a close
relationship between some of the Police
Department Officials and the traffickers
in prostitution. Immunity from arrest
was exchanged for a cut in the profits of
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