Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China: Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes

by Tonia St Germain, Tiantian Zheng, Treena Orchard, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319257617
• ISBN13: 9783319257617
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"