Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business

by Ronald Weitzer

Book Overview

While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of the ascendancy of interest groups committed to the total abolition of the sex industry. At the same time, however, several other nations have recently decriminalized prostitution.

Legalizing Prostitution maps out the current terrain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814794645
• ISBN13: 9780814794647
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"