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The New England Watch and Ward Society (founded as the New England Society for the Suppression of Vice) was a Boston, Massachusetts, organization involved in the censorship of books and the performing arts from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. After the 1920s, its emphasis changed to combating the spread of gambling. In 1957 the organization's name was changed to the New England Citizens Crime Commission, and in 1967 it became the Massachusetts Council on Crime and Correction. In 1975 it was merged with another organization to form Community Resources for Justice, a group that promotes prison reform and rights for formerly incarcerated persons.

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rdfs:comment	The New England Watch and Ward Society (founded as the New England Society for the Suppression of Vice) was a Boston, Massachusetts, organization involved in the censorship of books and the performing arts from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. After the 1920s, its emphasis changed to combating the spread of gambling. In 1957 the organization's name was changed to the New England Citizens Crime Commission, and in 1967 it became the Massachusetts Council on Crime and Correction. In 1975 it was merged with another organization to form Community Resources for Justice, a group that promotes prison reform and rights for formerly incarcerated persons. (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Candide Organizations established in 1878 List of addresses in Beacon Hill, Boston Censorship in the United States Boccaccio Boston Public Library Bowdlerized John O'Hara Robert Keable Voltaire An American Tragedy Simon Called Peter Elinor Glyn Episcopal Church (United States) Gambling Theodore Dreiser Anthony Comstock Appointment in Samarra Lillian Hellman Community Resources for Justice Walt Whitman Gargantua and Pantagruel Leaves of Grass Prison reform School Street Aldous Huxley All Quiet on the Western Front Political advocacy groups in the United States Erich Maria Remarque Erskine Caldwell Floyd Dell Banned in Boston Park Street Church Censorship God's Little Acre The Decameron Harvard University Herbert Asbury The Children's Hour (play) Organizations based in Boston Three Weeks (book) Boston, Massachusetts Boston Brahmin H.L. Mencken New England New York Society for the Suppression of Vice Rabelais Vice Point Counter Point American Mercury dbr:Dwight_Spaulding_Strong dbr:Frederick_Baylies_Allen
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has abstract	The New England Watch and Ward Society (founded as the New England Society for the Suppression of Vice) was a Boston, Massachusetts, organization involved in the censorship of books and the performing arts from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. After the 1920s, its emphasis changed to combating the spread of gambling. In 1957 the organization's name was changed to the New England Citizens Crime Commission, and in 1967 it became the Massachusetts Council on Crime and Correction. In 1975 it was merged with another organization to form Community Resources for Justice, a group that promotes prison reform and rights for formerly incarcerated persons. At the height of the society's power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Boston Public Library kept books that had been deemed objectionable in a locked room, publishers and booksellers held back publications for fear of the organization's influence with prosecutors and judges, and plays were performed in a bowdlerized "Boston Version". The society's activities contributed to the popularization of the phrase "Banned in Boston", which became a target of parody and a marketing slogan. (en)
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