Weak Bodies ? Prostitutes and the Role of Gender in the Criminological Writings of 19th-century German Detectives and Magistrates

The International Traffic in Women: Scandinavia and the League of Nations Inquiry of 1927

“…Heindl regarded the white slave traffic as a matter of sensationalist press reports based mostly on imagination. There were few cases, he pointed out, in which anyone had ever been convicted of this crime (Becker 1999). In fact, the Handwö rterbuch der Kriminologie, the German handbook of criminology, published in 1936, could point to only a single case of white slave trafficking in Germany in the years from 1918 to 1935 (Jä ger 2002:579).…”