Tobias, John Jacob. Urban Crime in Victorian England. Shocken Books, 1972.
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Patrick Colquhoun
Standard Name: Colquhoun, Patrick
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1796
Patrick Colquhoun
argued in his Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis that the number of prostitutes in London was numbered in thousands.
By November 1802
The Society for the Suppression of Vice
was founded in London and grew into the gap left by the Proclamation Society
; ironically, it was often called the Vice Society.
1806
Patrick Colquhoun
published A Treatise on Indigence, exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour.
1816
The Select Committee on Police heard from Patrick Colquhoun
that prostitutes derive a considerable proportion of their subsistence by the robbery of those who come into contact with them.