CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Criminal Negligence, Syphilis
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The notion of engaging in prostitution undermined the christian views on marriage, fidelity, and moral virtue. Prostitution was the antithesis of the historically dominant view of women in society such as caregiver, virtue, and chaste. A certain amount of ghettoization occurred from this. 17th century spain: prisons in spain were built for prostitution. There was an attempt historically to confine prostitution and prostitutes to specific spaces: sexually transmitted disease. Syphilis and gonorrhea were fatal until the discovery of antibiotics. Prostitutes were symbols of carriers of disease, further reason to incarcerate them. Criminal negligence charges for prostitutes because they continue to practice knowing they are carriers of infection. Quarantining, incarcerating was always an easily relied upon argument for: the suppression of prostitution-street prostitution. criminalizing prostitution. The criminal law must be used to handle disruption of order, noise, decline of property values where prostitution is practiced, prostitution attracts other forms of criminal activity, order maintenance: very strict prohibitions on prostitution.
