Rethinking the Prostitution Debates: Transcending Structural Stigma in Systemic Responses to Sex Work
Rethinking the Prostitution Debates: Transcending Structural Stigma in Systemic Responses to Sex Work
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DOI：
10.1017/cls.2012.2
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发表时间：
2013-04-01
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
Hannem, Stacey
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作者：
Bruckert, Chris;Hannem, Stacey
当法律当局考虑加拿大有关卖淫的法律是否合宪时，我们有机会重新思考性工作的一些基本假设以及对它的社会法律反应。在本文中，我们利用结构性污名的概念来分析加拿大法律中固有的污名假设，并简要描述其影响--公民排斥性工作者。然后，我们考虑这些相同的风险和不道德假设在最终需求(部分刑事化)、合法化(监管)模式和非犯罪化中重现的方式。虽然性工作非刑事化是基于最不光彩的假设做出的回应，但即使是著名的新西兰模式也不是没有道德说教和“他者”话语。需要进一步思考，以便构思一种超越耻辱假设的政策办法，从而尊重性工作者的人权和公民权利。
As legal authorities consider the constitutionality of the laws surrounding prostitution in Canada, we have the opportunity to rethink some of the fundamental assumptions that have been made about sex work and the socio-legal responses to it. In this article we draw on the concept of structural stigma to analyze the stigmatic assumptions inherent in the Canadian laws and briefly describe their effect-the civic exclusion of sex workers. We then consider the ways in which these same assumptions of risk and immorality are reproduced in end-demand (partial criminalization), legalized (regulatory) models, and decriminalization. While the decriminalization of sex work is the response that relies on the least stigmatic assumptions, even the celebrated New Zealand model is not absent of moralization and "othering" discourse. Further reflection is required to conceptualize a policy approach that transcends stigmatic assumptions so as to respect the human and civil rights of sex workers.