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NCJ Number: 115354 Find in a Library
Title: Prostitute as Victim (From Criminal Justice System and Women, P 291-315, 1982, Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie J Sokoloff, eds. -- See NCJ-115340)
Author(s): J James
Date Published: 1982
Annotation: Prostitution often is thought of as a victimless crime, and those who view prostitutes as victims tend to base this view on presumptions about the prostitute's degradation or immoral lifestyle.
Abstract: However, rather than being victims of prostitution itself, prostitutes may be victims of the laws against prostitution, the white middle-class men these laws are designed to protect, and the discriminatory enforcement of the laws that penalizes the prostitutes but rarely their customers. Further, while prostitutes are sanctioned as deviants, prostitution is an extension, not a contradiction, of traditional feminine sex roles. Finally, prostitutes are victims of the broader economic discrimination against women in the sex-segregated job market. Because of this economic discrimination, prostitution offers a job of greater variety, independence, and financial reward than might otherwise be available. Research into factors that enable women to accept the deviant status inherent in prostitution include parental abuse and neglect and negative patterns of sexual experience, including incest and rape, that may contribute to low self-esteem and a high degree of sexual self-objectification. These factors may be evidence that prostitutes are women with histories of victimization. Only widespread changes in sociosexual attitudes will affect these patterns of victimization and their relationship to prostitution. Decriminalization of prostitution provides a means to lessen the victimization. 2 notes and 41 references. (Author abstract modified)
Main Term(s): Prostitution causes
Index Term(s): Female sex roles; Psychological victimization effects; Sex discrimination; Victimless crimes
Sponsoring Agency: Clark Boardman Company, Ltd
New York, NY 10014
Sale Source: Clark Boardman Company, Ltd
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United States of America
Page Count: 25
Type: Legislation/Policy Analysis
Language: English
Country: United States of America
Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. From The Victimization of Women, J. R. Chapman and M. Gates, eds., 1978, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills.
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