Regulating Sex / Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism? / Edition 1

by Jane Scoular, Teela Sanders

Overview

Regulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism? addresses the rise in sexual commerce and consumption by challenging traditional responses and offering a fresh approach to sex industry regulation

• Examines different forms of sex regulation by utilizing examples from a range of sex markets in the UK, France, USA, Australia, and India
• Theorizes the apparent paradox that the increase in punitive approaches to regulating the sex industry is fueling a rise in supply, demand, and diversification of the sex industry

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444333626
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/29/2010
Series:	Journal of Law and Society Special Issues , #4
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jane Scoular is Reader in Law at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.

Teela Sanders is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Changing Social and Legal Context of Sexual Commerce: Why Regulation Matters Jane Scoular Teela Sanders 1

What's Law Got To Do With It? How and Why Law Matters in the Regulation of Sex Work Jane Scoular 12

Mainstreaming the Sex Industry: Economic Inclusion and Social Ambivalence Barbara G. Brents Teela Sanders 40

The Movement to Criminalize Sex Work in the United States Ronald Weitzer 61

When (Some) Prostitution is Legal: The Impact of Law Reform on Sex Work in Australia Barbara Sullivan 85

Labours in Vice or Virtue? Neo-liberalism, Sexual Commerce, and the Case of Indian Bar Dancing Prabha Kotiswaran 105

Male Sex Work: Exploring Regulation in England and Wales Mary Whowell 125

Bellwether Citizens: The Regulation of Male Clients of Sex Workers Belinda Brooks-Gordon 145

Extreme Concern: Regulating 'Dangerous Pictures' in the United Kingdom Feona Attwood Clarissa Smith 171

Consuming Sex: Socio-legal Shifts in the Space and Place of Sex Shops Baptiste Coulmont Phil Hubbard 189

Cultural Criminology and Sex Work: Resisting Regulation through Radical Democracy and Participatory Action Research (PAR) Maggie O'Neill 210