Concern about the issue of forced prostitution reached its height in the Russian empire (as elsewhere in Europe and the Americas) at the turn of the twentieth century, as part of the wider international “white slave” panic. In 1909, new antiprocurement statutes were incorporated into the Russian empire’s Criminal Code to ensure that those who forced, coerced, or encouraged young women to enter the commercial sex industry felt the full force of the law. This article uses a case study of the Russian empire’s Estonian provinces (Estliand and Lifliand) to highlight the regional nature of Russian imperial experience. Prosecuting procurement was aligned with the priorities of local government, and the authorities in Revel’ (Tallinn) and Iu’rev (Tartu) used the issue of procurement to bolster their revenue. Here, the statutes gave the authorities additional tools for targeting individuals, such as managers of unlicensed brothels, who deprived the government of the income it generated from regulating the commercial sex industry. Drawing on court cases from the early 1910s, this article also examines the interaction of lower-class people with the state, their engagement with the legal system, their knowledge of the law, and the rhetorical strategies they employed to in their attempts to secure specific outcomes.

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在俄罗斯帝国进行采购

二十世纪之交，作为更广泛的国际“白奴”恐慌的一部分，对强迫卖淫问题的担忧在俄罗斯帝国（如欧洲和美洲的其他地方）达到了顶峰。1909 年，新的反采购法规被纳入俄罗斯帝国的《刑法》，以确保那些强迫、胁迫或鼓励年轻女性进入商业性色情行业的人感受到法律的全部力量。本文以俄罗斯帝国的爱沙尼亚省份（埃斯特利安德和利夫利安德）为例，强调俄罗斯帝国经验的区域性。起诉采购与当地政府的优先事项保持一致，Revel'（塔林）和Iu'rev（塔尔图）的当局利用采购问题来增加收入。这里，法规为当局提供了针对个人的额外工具，例如无照妓院的经理，这些人剥夺了政府通过监管商业性色情业而获得的收入。本文借鉴 1910 年代初期的法庭案例，还考察了下层人民与国家的互动、他们与法律制度的接触、他们对法律的了解，以及他们在试图确保特定利益时所采用的修辞策略。结果。