Jon, can you point to some data in support of the last sentence? I'd like to read up on it.
Good place to start is
Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938] and Victor S. Yarros. The Prohibition Mania: A Reply to Professor Irving Fisher and Others. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. vii, 254 pp. Available from http://www.lawbookexchange.com
The criminal statistics collecting wasn't as systematic in those days, so one generally has to piece the data together from a variety of sources, but the pattern is clear and reminiscent of the pattern today.
--Jon
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