SOC323H5 Lecture Notes - Squeegee Man, Public Space, Sexually Transmitted Infection
Document Summary
Decriminalization- remove criminal element of it (i. e. drugs decriminalized- receiving a ticket rather than a criminal sanction; keeping people out of criminal justice system) Legalization- allowed to do this; no tickets, criminal liability, no punitive sanctions attached. Govt recognizes that prostitution exists and saying that trying to eliminate, they will regulate: not protective of prostitutes, compulsory treatment and venereal disease checking. English system- liberal idea of the individual and the limits of the state: prostitution itself not illegal but acts around prostitution are illegal, private conduct- state doesn"t have right to intervene private matters. Shift in level of policing in prostitution: citizens complaining there are prostitutes everywhere (ie. prostitute harvey"s in. Or are they coerced into it? (organized crime into prostitution) Historical efforts to make laws gender neutral. Prostitution itself not illegal; acts around it. 1869 act respected vagrance- simple act of being a women streetwalker a crime.
