Puritanical societies for “the suppression of vice” encouraged punitive laws against disorderly houses and streetwalking.

为了“抑制邪恶”清教徒社团鼓励对淫乱场所和街头卖淫行为实施惩罚性法律。

The police scattered the disorderly crowd.

警察驱散了骚乱人群。