Article ID: CBB000931375

L'usage des statistiques par les discours abolitionniste et réglementariste sur la prostitution à Bruxelles (1844--1948) (2007)

unapi

François, Aurore (Author)
Machiels, Christine (Author)


Histoire & Mesure
Volume: 22, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 103-134


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “Déviance, justice et statistiques”
Language: French

During the 19th and 20th centuries, heated debates about prostitution control opposed the regulationists, who advocated for a police and medical control of prostitution, to the abolitionists, fighting for the disappearance of regulated prostitution. In Belgium, this controversy about prostitution occurred at a time when scientific and political circles were increasingly interested in statistics, leading to a war of figures. This paper deals with the construction and evolution of official prostitution statistics in relation with the preoccupations of the political elite, abolitionists and regulationists presenting these data to their advantage, going from ideological discourses to even political manipulations.

...More
Included in

Article Vesentini, Frédéric (2007) Introduction. Histoire & Mesure (pp. 3-11). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000931375/

Similar Citations

Article Baclin, Guillaume; Campion, Jonas; Rousseaux, Xavier; (2007)
Les chiffres en guerre: Occupations, justices et statistiques pénales en Belgique (1914--1950) (/isis/citation/CBB000931365/)

Article Rowse, Tim; Shellam, Tiffany; (2013)
The Colonial Emergence of a Statistical Imaginary (/isis/citation/CBB001201830/)

Article Aubusson de Cavarlay, Bruno; (2007)
Des comptes rendus à la statistique criminelle: c'est l'unité qui compte (France, XIXe-XXe siècles) (/isis/citation/CBB000931373/)

Article Pich, Santiago; (2013)
Adolphe Quetelet e a biopolítica como teologia secularizada (/isis/citation/CBB001420668/)

Article Nayak, Tapan K.; (2009)
Impact of Karl Pearson's Work on Statistical Developments in India (/isis/citation/CBB001033902/)

Article Labbé, Morgane; (2008)
L'arithmétique politique en Allemagne au début du XIXe siècle: réceptions et polémiques (/isis/citation/CBB001021397/)

Article Borroni, Claudio Giovanni; (2009)
Understanding Karl Pearson's Influence on Italian Statistics in the Early 20th Century (/isis/citation/CBB001033903/)

Article Tanner, Martin A.; Wong, Wing H.; (2010)
From EM to Data Augmentation: The Emergence of MCMC Bayesian Computation in the 1980s (/isis/citation/CBB001035738/)

Book Crook, Tom; O'Hara, Glen; (2011)
Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000 (/isis/citation/CBB001033382/)

Article Kaat Louckx; Raf Vanderstraeten; (2015)
Household and State-istics: Cornerstones of Society in Population Censuses (Belgium, 1846–1947) (/isis/citation/CBB247423523/)

Chapter Bracke, Nele; (2010)
For State and Society? The Production of Official Statistics in 19th-Century Belgium (/isis/citation/CBB001031933/)

Article Ansart, Guillaume; (2009)
Condorcet, Social Mathematics, and Women's Rights (/isis/citation/CBB001030335/)

Article Mespoulet, Martine; (2006)
Former au calcul socialiste: statistiques en URSS des années 1930 (/isis/citation/CBB001021379/)

Article Rohrbasser, Jean-Marc; (2008)
Süssmilch lecteur de Petty. Arithmétique politique et théologie naturelle (/isis/citation/CBB001021398/)

Chapter Laura Schettini; (2019)
Prostitute migranti, società e misure di polizia in età liberale (/isis/citation/CBB555676442/)

Article Martin, Thierry; (2011)
Introduction (/isis/citation/CBB001024470/)

Authors & Contributors
Kaat Louckx
Vanderstraeten, Raf
Rowse, Tim
Labbé, Morgane
Schettini, Laura
Wong, Wing H.
Concepts
Statistics
Mathematics
Applied statistics
Science and politics
Science and government
Demography; population research
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
17th century
Places
Belgium
France
New Zealand
Germany
Prussia (Germany)
North America
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment