Sex workers and criminalization in N...
Dewey, Susan.

 

  • Sex workers and criminalization in North America and China[electronic resource] :ethical and legal issues in exclusionary regimes /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 300
    書名/作者: Sex workers and criminalization in North America and China : ethical and legal issues in exclusionary regimes // by Susan Dewey, Tiantian Zheng, Treena Orchard.
    作者: Dewey, Susan.
    其他作者: Zheng, Tiantian.
    出版者: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, 2016.
    面頁冊數: xi, 99 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Prostitution - Law and legislation - China.
    標題: Prostitution - Law and legislation - North America.
    標題: Prostitution - Moral and ethical aspects - China.
    標題: Prostitution - Moral and ethical aspects - North America.
    標題: Social sciences.
    標題: Anthropology.
    標題: Criminology.
    標題: Sociology.
    標題: Sex (Psychology)
    標題: Gender expression.
    標題: Gender identity.
    標題: Social Sciences.
    標題: Criminology & Criminal Justice.
    標題: Gender Studies.
    ISBN: 9783319257631
    ISBN: 9783319257617
    摘要、提要註: This book explores the impacts exacted by criminalization on the lives of women involved in sex work in the U.S., Canada, and China - three countries that criminally punish most forms of sex work. Criminalization exacts a set of negative totalizing effects on sex workers throughout the world through a process elsewhere articulated as the exclusionary regime, a dense coalescence of punitive forces which involves both governance in the form of the criminal justice system and engagement with the courts and other state agents, and regular patterns of action, including myriad forms of discrimination resulting from stigma. Despite the considerable cultural and economic differences between the US and Canada compared to China, all embrace a philosophical paradigm that positions sex work as inherently harmful to both women who engage in it and society more generally. This perspective conveniently ignores the complex economic and social forces that, for some women, makes sex work the most appealing employment choice from an otherwise constrained menu of options. Analysis presented here demonstrates how well-intentioned law and public policy can have unforeseen consequences, particularly when designed by those ignorant of the realities of sex workers' everyday lives. The existence of an exclusionary regime that eschews evidence-based knowledge in favor of morality-based legislation raises numerous ethical issues for both researchers and society at large. < The multiple case studies employed will illustrate a single, theoretical theme. In so doing, the book addresses the complex means by which state-endorsed exclusionary practices seem to further entrench the inequalities that shape the lives of many women involved in sex work in North America and China.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25763-1
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