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- Title
WAR LEGISLATION AGAINST ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR AND PROSTITUTION.
- Authors
Buchanan, John G.
- Abstract
The article focuses on war legislation regarding prostitution, drinking and gambling. There is a marked line of distinction, however, between the two former and the last in the matter of their effect upon the health of their victims. Alcoholic liquor and prostitution were deemed by the U.S. Congress of such importance in a military sense that sections with regard there to were embodied in the Selective Draft Act of May 18, 1917. By Section 12 of that act Congress authorized the President "to make such regulations governing the prohibition of alcoholic liquors in or near military camps and to the officers and enlisted men of the Army as he may from time to time deem necessary or advisable." The section also made it a misdemeanor to sell intoxicating liquor "to any officer or member of the military forces while in uniform," with exceptions not important to the purpose of this discussion. A violation of the section or regulations made there under was made punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than twelve months or both.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WAR &; emergency legislation; ALCOHOLIC beverages; UNITED States. Congress; SEX work; DELEGATED legislation
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1919, Vol 9, Issue 4, p520
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1134127