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As Hearne notes, this "bottom-up" approach allows her 'to shift focus away from the dominant discourses of the state and medical professionals to interrogate everyday experiences of the regulation system' (59). Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia: Siobhán Hearne. As Hearne outlines, definitions of prostitution varied by region, in large part due to the relative independence afforded to provincial governors in determining the implementation of regulation. [Extracted from the article]