CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Moral Panic
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Young was clear about the core of his challenge was in reference to section 7 of the charter: these laws put women in jeopardy. Alan young could have argued that the criminal law already has laws against child exploitation & human trafficking. Bill c36: new laws that pertain to prostitution. When legislators link issues, such as prostitution being the gateway to drug abuse, they engage in counter law and over criminalization. Counter law: a process where politicians engage in discreet kinds of criminal behaviour in order to dramatize the state"s power. Swedish/nordiac model has been adopted in bill c36, it decriminalizes prostitution, but criminalizes the purchase of sex. If one decriminalizes an offence, it must follow logically that it will become legalized: decriminalizing doesn"t solve the problem in prostitution because it regards intimate relationships between people. The intimacy of this contact requires legislation: if prostitution is just decriminalized, it provides no regulation or protection for prostitutes themselves.
