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vice reformers  

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  • Vice laws aimed to control acts that many people engaged in for pleasure and about which the question of who was the “victim” and who the “offender” were often debated. Attempts to enforce existing laws and to enact new legislation occurred within the context of public discourse about the family, gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, class, and immigration. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Vice Reformers]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-K4N3N3DC-W

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