Die positiven Aufgaben und strasrechtlichen Forderungen der Föderation

Anna Pappritz and Katharina Scheven, members of the German section of the International Abolitionist Federation (Internationale Abolitionistische Föderation), authored this fifth volume of the "Abolitionist Pamphlet" series (Abolitionistische Flugschriften) published in Dresden in 1909. Pappritz and Scheven argue that justice was the basis for morality and social progress but that the field of sexual morality lacked this principle. They critique the "double standard" of disproportionately harsh punishments for prostitution for women compared to the relative lack of punishment for men. Members of the Abolitionist Federation felt that the causes of prostitution were social and physiological, emphasizing historical patterns of exploitation of the weak by the strong. The federation members proposed campaigns for positive reform under three headings: prevention and education, sanitation, and legal. These campaigns included proposals for welfare, education, law, housing, labor, prison and hospital reforms.