Illegal Entertainment
Scope Note
Houses of prostitution; recruiting of prostitutes; business methods; auxiliary specialists (e.g., procurers, madams, pimps); organized homosexuality; illicit narcotics trade (e.g., drug peddlers, opium dens; crack houses); underworld gambling establishments; illicit liquor business (e.g., rumrunning, bootlegging, speakeasies); organization of underworld activities; political protection and graft; racketeering; etc.
History Note
The term was changed from "Organized Vice" to "Illegal Entertainment" in 2000 and the scope note was revised.
- Broader Term
- 540 Commercialized Entertainment
- Related Terms
- 270 Drink And Drugs
- 525 Gambling
- 660 Political Behavior
- 674 Crime
- 677 Organized Crime
- 744 Public Health And Sanitation
- 786 Ecstatic Religious Practices
- 838 Homosexuality
- 839 Miscellaneous Sex Behavior
- Use Fors
- Adult entertainment
- Bootlegging
- Brothels (availability and use)
- Call girls
- Casinos (illegal)
- Crackhouses
- Gambling establishments (illegal)
- Gigolo
- Graft (in illegal entertainment)
- Homosexual prostitution
- Liquor business (illicit)
- Male escort (illegal entertainment)
- Male prostitute (illegal entertainment)
- Opium dens
- Organized vice
- Procurers (in prostitution)
- Prostitution (illegal entertainment)
- Racketeering (illegal entertainment)
- Rum running
- Speakeasies
- Stimulants (illegal trade in)
- Trade in illicit substances
- Underworld gambling establishments
- Vice (illegal entertainment)
- Identifier
- 548
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