CRIM 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Male Privilege, Escort Agency, Strip Club
6 Jun 2018
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3 P’s → PROSECUTION
Laws and Policies
● Sally Merry
○ Thin data
○ Overemphasis on prosecution
○ Moral panic
○ Naming and shaming and its impact on the criminalization of trafficking
■ Is it just on paper or actually in practice?
■ Suggested publicly naming hotel chains where prostitution occurred, even
if they weren’t aware or start collaborating with the police so that they can
look into trafficking
● Obvs said that they’d help the popo
○ How can we improve the TIP report?
■ “Broader, more structural analysis of the process of trafficking and its
causes”
■ Remove ties with US
■ Collaboration among different organizations
● Produce different types of trafficking responses
○ Rapporteur has access to literally everything by law
○ What are other ways to call for anti-trafficking responses?
■ Make resources for reporting human trafficking more well known
■ Make sure people know where to go if they see something
■ Training of various staff (e.g. hotel staff)
■ Spreading info
● Doherty and Harris
○ Social construction of trafficked persons: an analysis of the UN protocol and the
TVPA definitions
○ Think of trafficking as people we don’t know
○ Framework that talks about how trafficking often affects white minors
■ Iconic and social construction of who a victim can be that has supported a
lot of human trafficking responses
■ Result: many western countries don’t focus on poverty as social inequality
● Current federal laws
○ TVPA didn’t start with focus on victims
Demand Reduction
● Four different frames of sex work
○ What are we missing in our discussion for the demand side?
■ Focus very much on male clients, but not the only group
● Deconstructing the demand for prostitution
○ Location
■ Bar 56%
■ Strip club 46%
■ Escort agency 36%
■ …
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Document Summary
Naming and shaming and its impact on the criminalization of trafficking. Suggested publicly naming hotel chains where prostitution occurred, even if they weren"t aware or start collaborating with the police so that they can look into trafficking. Obvs said that they"d help the popo. Broader, more structural analysis of the process of trafficking and its causes . Rapporteur has access to literally everything by law. Make resources for reporting human trafficking more well known. Make sure people know where to go if they see something. Training of various staff (e. g. hotel staff) Social construction of trafficked persons: an analysis of the un protocol and the. Think of trafficking as people we don"t know. Framework that talks about how trafficking often affects white minors. Iconic and social construction of who a victim can be that has supported a lot of human trafficking responses. Result: many western countries don"t focus on poverty as social inequality. Tvpa didn"t start with focus on victims.
