Having worked the infamous New York City Night Court for over nine years, Maude Miner had seen it all. One would expect her to have become inured to the parade of young women charged with prostitution.
Instead,she saw each of these girls and women as individuals who could be helped. She cataloged their stories, kept statistics, investigated their backgrounds, and worked extremely hard to understand the root causes that brought these women in conflict with the law. She shares many of the stories here in the womens' own words.
Though her attitude in some ways was very Edwardian, she had an inordinately enlightened, non-judgmental, compassionate approach to solving a problem she saw as a great injustice against the prostitutes more than a social evil requiring the women to be shunned.
In 1916, Miner published her years of study in this book. For the first time, this long-out-of-print book is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones.
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