CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Brothel, Prostitution In Canada, Indictable Offence
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Dependent on social and political context (from a s signed readings) Unintended cons equence s of policy change s: can negatively affect women a s well, e. g. mandatory charging policies - put into place in respons e to dome stic violence in. Also believed the state shouldn"t interfere into private affair. Also believed they were crime fighters, not social workers. Immigrant women: when sh e reports, she can risk deportation if she is dependent on her husband for residence, then she is put in a precarious position. Inters ectionality: what went wrong: the a s sumption that all dome stic abus e was the s a me. Prostitution-related activities, however, had be en crimi- nalized - therefore is a contradiction. Procuring and living on the avails of prostitution (s. 212) - us ed to penalize pimps or oth- er 3rd parties trying to profit from prostitution.
