CCJS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mens Rea, Tax Evasion, Bank Fraud
19 Aug 2018
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PROSTITUTION & WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
4 ways to regulate prostitution?
-Full criminalization: Criminalizes sellers, buyers, third parties, and all those involved
-Trap, hard to get a conventional job when you have a record
-Law forces you to continue
-May have sex with officers to avoid arrest
-Partial criminalization: buy and selling is legal but things like brothels are illegal
-Selling sex is okay but don’t do it out in the public
-Brothel indicates more than one woman working together, partial makes it so you have
to work alone
-Have to pay a fine if you’re caught, but how do you pay them without money?
-Legalization: made legal and regulated
-Swedish/Nordic model: only criminalizing the people buying sex
Why is prohibition problematic for this crime?
-Policy cannot be made on feelings
-Laws force stigma and hatred on sex workers
-Barely makes a difference to the amount of people actually doing those things. But it makes a
huge difference as to whether or not they're safe when they do them.
What is the better option?
-Decriminalization: the removal of laws that punitively target the sex industry, instead treating
sex work like many other types of work
-People can work together for safety
-Employers of sex workers are accountable to the state
-A sex worker can refuse to see a client at any time, for any reason
-96 percent of street workers report that they feel the law protects their rights
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White-Collar Crime
-A violation of the law committed by a person or group of persons in the course of an otherwise
respected and legitimate occupation or business enterprise
-An illegal act or series of illegal acts committed by nonphysical means and by concealment or
guile to obtain money or property or to obtain a business or personal advantage
Document Summary
Full criminalization: criminalizes sellers, buyers, third parties, and all those involved. Trap, hard to get a conventional job when you have a record. May have sex with officers to avoid arrest. Partial criminalization: buy and selling is legal but things like brothels are illegal. Selling sex is okay but don"t do it out in the public. Brothel indicates more than one woman working together, partial makes it so you have to work alone. Swedish/nordic model: only criminalizing the people buying sex. Laws force stigma and hatred on sex workers. Barely makes a difference to the amount of people actually doing those things. But it makes a huge difference as to whether or not they"re safe when they do them. Decriminalization: the removal of laws that punitively target the sex industry, instead treating sex work like many other types of work. Employers of sex workers are accountable to the state.
