CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Public-Order Crime, Brothel, Street Prostitution
Document Summary
The politics of cj reform: adult street prostitution in canada. Victimless crime: consensual transaction: exchange between wiling partners of goods and services, public order crime not interpersonal crime. Justification of criminalization: public harms, not related to the individual. Public order: disorder to public by prostitution. Increase of noise and traffic/condoms in alleyways: widely understood to be a female crime. Legislative history: vagrancy statues of nova scotia act of 1759. Lower canada act of 1839 being a prostitute was a status offence. All common prostitutes or night walkers not giving a satisfactory account of themselves" and those frequenting brothels: 1892 until 1972: vagrancy provisions of the ccc. Bawdy houses, streetwalking, living off the avails and exploitation of prostitution. S. 195. 1: solicitation in public place for the purpose of prostitution. 1983 provisions clarified that prostitute meant a person of either sex engaging in prostitution.
