L’affaire de la traite des blanches (1880‑1881) : un scandale bruxellois ?
Between 1880 and 1881, Brussels was the scene of the first “white slave trade” affair, which had international repercussions: approximately fifty Belgian and foreign underage women – British in particular – had been admitted since 1878 into some of the officially recognised brothels in the city. A h...
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| description | Between 1880 and 1881, Brussels was the scene of the first “white slave trade” affair, which had international repercussions: approximately fifty Belgian and foreign underage women – British in particular – had been admitted since 1878 into some of the officially recognised brothels in the city. A handful of them had been brought there against their will. After several trials, fifteen or so shady individuals were sentenced, but those who were truly responsible for the abuse were members of the police. There is no reason to deduce from this that the Brussels police were particularly corrupt: in truth, the system for the regulation of prostitution placed the police in an objective position as the protectors of the brothel keepers’ interests. The same effects were invariably seen wherever this system was implemented. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-932ca696fe9a42f0ba9524b2294794032025-08-20T03:33:42ZengUniversité libre de Bruxelles - ULBBrussels Studies2031-02932011-02-0110.4000/brussels.831L’affaire de la traite des blanches (1880‑1881) : un scandale bruxellois ?Jean-Michel ChaumontBetween 1880 and 1881, Brussels was the scene of the first “white slave trade” affair, which had international repercussions: approximately fifty Belgian and foreign underage women – British in particular – had been admitted since 1878 into some of the officially recognised brothels in the city. A handful of them had been brought there against their will. After several trials, fifteen or so shady individuals were sentenced, but those who were truly responsible for the abuse were members of the police. There is no reason to deduce from this that the Brussels police were particularly corrupt: in truth, the system for the regulation of prostitution placed the police in an objective position as the protectors of the brothel keepers’ interests. The same effects were invariably seen wherever this system was implemented.http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/831prostitutionhistoire judiciaire |
| spellingShingle | Jean-Michel Chaumont L’affaire de la traite des blanches (1880‑1881) : un scandale bruxellois ? Brussels Studies prostitution histoire judiciaire |
| title | L’affaire de la traite des blanches (1880‑1881) : un scandale bruxellois ? |
| title_full | L’affaire de la traite des blanches (1880‑1881) : un scandale bruxellois ? |
| title_fullStr | L’affaire de la traite des blanches (1880‑1881) : un scandale bruxellois ? |
| title_full_unstemmed | L’affaire de la traite des blanches (1880‑1881) : un scandale bruxellois ? |
| title_short | L’affaire de la traite des blanches (1880‑1881) : un scandale bruxellois ? |
| title_sort | l affaire de la traite des blanches 1880 1881 un scandale bruxellois |
| topic | prostitution histoire judiciaire |
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