Overview: Uses original research to shed new light on the origins of the modern-day war on drugs.Explores the clash between French and American vice regulation, and how this was overcome in the war on drugs.Sho.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
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