9783319257617-3319257617-Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China: Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes (Anthropology and Ethics)

Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China: Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes (Anthropology and Ethics)

ISBN-13: 9783319257617
ISBN-10: 3319257617
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
Author: Tiantian Zheng, Susan Dewey, Treena Orchard
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Springer
Format: Paperback 110 pages
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ISBN-13: 9783319257617
ISBN-10: 3319257617
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
Author: Tiantian Zheng, Susan Dewey, Treena Orchard
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Springer
Format: Paperback 110 pages

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Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China: Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes (Anthropology and Ethics) (ISBN-13: 9783319257617 and ISBN-10: 3319257617), written by authors Tiantian Zheng, Susan Dewey, Treena Orchard, was published by Springer in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Criminology (Social Sciences, Anthropology, Behavioral Sciences, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China: Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes (Anthropology and Ethics) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Criminology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Sex work continues to provoke controversial legal and public policy debates world-wide that raise fundamental questions about the state’s role in protecting individual rights, status quo social relations, and public health. This book unites ethnographic research from China, Canada, and the United States to argue that criminalization results in a totalizing set of negative consequences for sex workers’ health, safety, and human rights. Such consequences are enabled through the operations of an exclusionary regime, a dense coalescence of punitive forces that involves both governance, in the form of the criminal justice system and other state agents, and dynamic interpersonal encounters in which individuals both enforce and negotiate stigma-related discrimination against sex workers. Chapter Two demonstrates how criminalization harms sex workers by isolating their work to potentially dangerous locations, fostering mistrust of authority figures, further limiting their abilities to find legal work and housing, and restricting possibilities for collective rights-based organizing. Criminalized sex workers report police harassment, seizure of condoms, and adversarial police-sex worker relations that enable others to abuse them with impunity. Chapter Three describes how sex workers negotiate these restrictions on their rights and personal autonomy via their arrest avoidance and client management strategies, self-treatment of health issues, selective mutual aid, rights-based organizing, and entrenchment in sex work or other criminalized activities. Chapter Four describes how researchers working in countries or locales that criminalize sex work face ethical concerns as well as barriers to their work at the practical, institutional, and political levels.

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