scholarly journals ‘I Wouldn’t Call the Cops if I was Being Bashed to Death’: Sex Work, Whore Stigma and the Criminal Legal System

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Stardust ◽  
Carla Treloar ◽  
Elena Cama ◽  
Jules Kim
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Victim Status ◽  
Systematic Response ◽  
Criminal Legal System ◽  
Licensing Laws

Discourse on sex work is replete with narratives of risk and danger, predominantly focused on violence and disease. However, the risks instigated by police, maintained by the criminal justice system and sanctioned by the state—criminal laws, licensing laws and targeted policing—receive far less attention. This paper responds to this gap in three ways. First, we examine how stigma manifests in sex workers’ experiences of Australian policing, which act to disincentivise sex workers from accessing criminal legal mechanisms. Second, we illustrate how sex workers are denied victim status as they are seen by law as ‘irresponsible citizens’ and blamed for their experiences of crime. Third, we argue that these factors create conditions in which sex workers must constantly assess risks to access safety and legal redress while structural sex work stigma persists unabated. We conclude that ‘whore stigma’ is entrenched in the criminal legal system and requires a systematic response that necessitates but goes beyond the decriminalisation of sex work.

From Victim to Criminality

2021 ◽  
pp. 288-308
Author(s):  
Vipin Vijay Nair ◽  
Sandra Anil Varkey
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Commercial Sex Work ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Society Today

Trafficking of persons, primarily women and children, is one of the growing social dilemmas concerning global society today. Not only is human trafficking a highly sensitive and polarizing subject, but it is also considered a common norm in many countries. Many women recruited into commercial sex work are coerced into the profession exploiting their financial and economic condition but continue to work in the profession to survive through easy money. The chapter focuses on a theoretical framework for understanding the victimization of female sex workers. It also reflects various lacuna in the present criminal justice system and law enforcement mechanism in criminalizing victims within the sex work industry. The chapter narrates the voices of commercial sex workers in India over the prejudices and criminalization by various laws and regulations towards their consensual sex work. The chapter recommends sensitization training and awareness amongst various stakeholders of the criminal justice system.

Sexualized Laws, Criminalized Bodies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saheed Aderinto
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Child Prostitution ◽  
The Social

This chapter discusses how the criminal justice system assumed a prime position in the policing of prostitution. By differentiating between adult and child prostitution laws, the legal system played a significant role in molding public and official perceptions toward the identity of adult and underage practitioners of prostitution and the perceived menace each type of prostitution allegedly posed. Moreover, unlike the social interpretation of sex work, the new legal regime from the early 1940s institutionalized the criminalization of transactional sex as a component of social and public order. As such, prostitution became a component of the colonial state's maintenance of law and order, which was cardinal to the effective exploitation of the colonies.

The English Legal System

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisdair Gillespie ◽  
Siobhan Weare
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Judicial Independence ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
System P ◽  
Civil Justice System

The English Legal System presents the main areas of the legal system and encourages a critique of the wider aspects of how law is made and reformed. The book is structured in five parts. Part I looks at the sources of law including domestic and international sources. Part II looks at the courts and the practitioners. It considers the structure of the courts and tribunals, judges and judicial independence, the legal professions, and funding legal services. Part III examines the criminal justice system. It describes issues related to lay justice, trials, and criminal appeals. The next part is about the civil justice system. It looks at civil litigation, remedies, appeals and alternative dispute resolution. The final part looks to the future.

scholarly journals THE ROLES OF INVESTIGATOR IN IMPLEMENTING DIVERSION ON CHILDREN CRIMINAL ACTION

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Zakki Mubarok ◽  
Achmad Sulchan
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Internal Constraints ◽  
Legal Understanding

Some efforts were made to overcome internal obstacles: improving coordination among investigators, intensive approaches to witnesses, improving socialization of the Criminal Justice System Law and Child Protection Act. While the efforts to overcome the external obstacles: education, rigorous interrogation, improving facilities and infrastructure and bringing together an understanding of the meaning of recidivist. This research is based on the increasingly widespread criminal cases committed by children that occurred in the jurisdiction of Polrestabes Semarang in particular and in various major cities in Indonesia in general. The results of the research indicate that: (1) The role of the investigator in the diversion implementation of child crime cases, namely the internal roles among which are coordinating with the community and with various institutions or related parties, upholding the legal system and criminal justice system in accordance with the mandate of the Act, as well as involving police (Investigator) members in training or special education. (2) The constraints faced by the investigators in the diversion implementation of child crime cases are internal constraints: lack of coordination among investigators, lack of legal understanding of witnesses, lack of socialization of the Criminal Justice System Law and Child Protection Law.

English Legal System Concentrate

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Thomas ◽  
Claire McGourlay
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
International Law ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Civil Justice ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Domestic Legislation ◽  
Civil Justice System

Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. English Legal Systems Concentrate starts with an introduction to the English legal system (ELS). It then looks at sources of law: domestic legislation, case law, and the effect of EU and international law. The text also examines the court structure. It then looks at personnel of the ELS. It moves on to consider the criminal justice system and the civil justice system. After that, it looks at funding access to the ELS. Finally, it looks to the future of the ELS.

Profit Making Disguised as Rehabilitation: The Biopolitics of Homo Sacer in China’s Custody Education Program for Sex Workers

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Institutional Violence ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Political Status

In China, low- and medium-income sex workers are routinely detained in custody education centers and subjected to institutional violence and exploitation. There are disparities between the official intentions of custody education and its implementation, rendering custody education more as a moneymaking enterprise than a mechanism for rehabilitation. Interviews with sex workers who have experienced custody education confirm this disconnect. The result is that sex workers become homo sacer, a figure stripped of political status and societal recognition. The findings suggest needed changes regarding human rights and the criminal justice system in China.

scholarly journals Psychiatric assessment and diversion schemes: problems associated with brief court reports

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 303-305
Author(s):  
Clare Chambers ◽  
Jane Gill
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Psychiatric Assessment

Mental health professionals are becoming increasingly involved with the criminal justice system through their work in psychiatric assessment and diversion schemes. Preparation of reports for the courts requires knowledge of the legal system. Those preparing such reports need specific training for this work.

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