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A new conscience and an ancient evil.

DOI: 10.1037/13807-000

Publisher: MacMillan Co - American Psychological Association

Mar 12, 2012

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An analogy.

Addams, Jane

Pages: 3 –13

In every large city throughout the world thousands of women are so set aside as outcasts from decent society that it is considered an impropriety to speak the very word which designates them. But evils so old that they are imbedded in man's earliest history have been known to sway before an...
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Recent legal enactments.

Addams, Jane

Pages: 17 –52

At the present moment even the least conscientious citizens agree that, first and foremost, the organized traffic in what has come to be called white slaves must be suppressed and that those traffickers who procure their victims for purely commercial purposes must be arrested and prosecuted. As...
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Amelioration of economic conditions.

Addams, Jane

Pages: 55 –94

It may be possible to extract some small degree of comfort from the recent revelations of the white slave traffic when we reflect that at the present moment, in the midst of a freedom such as has never been accorded to young women in the history of the world, under an economic pressure grinding...
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Moral education and legal protection of children.

Addams, Jane

Pages: 97 –137

No great wrong has ever arisen more clearly to the social consciousness of a generation than has that of commercialized vice in the consciousness of ours, and that we are so slow to act is simply another evidence that human nature has a curious power of callous indifference towards evils which...
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Philanthropic rescue and prevention.

Addams, Jane

Pages: 141 –178

The social evil has, on the whole, received less philanthropic effort than any other well-recognized menace to the community. Modern philanthropy, continually discovering new aspects of prostitution through the aid of economics, sanitary science, statistical research, and many other agencies,...
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Increased social control.

Addams, Jane

Pages: 181 –219

When certain groups in a community, to whom a social wrong has become intolerable, prepare for definite action against it, they almost invariably discover unexpected help from contemporaneous social movements with which they later find themselves allied. The most immediate help in this new...

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