Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes /

• Main Authors: Dewey, Susan (Author), Zheng, Tiantian (Author), Orchard, Treena (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Anthropology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Social Sciences.; Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.; Gender Studies.

Sex work continues to provoke controversial legal and public policy debates world-wide that raise fundamental questions about the state’s role in protecting individual rights, status quo social relations, and public health. This book unites ethnographic research from China, Canada, and the United St...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Law, Public Policy, and Sex Work in North America
• Chapter 2: Systematic Collusion: Criminalization’s Health and Safety Impacts on Sex Workers
• Chapter 3: Autonomy, Citizenship, and Resistance
• Chapter 4: Researchers’ Negotiations of Systematic Collusion. .