Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-347). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Reproduction de : Thèse de doctorat : Lettres : Lyon 3 : 2005. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr.

Thesis (M.A.(Criminology))--University of Pretoria, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Zugl.: Bochum, Universiẗat, Diss., 2009.

The aim of this thesis is to describe how the problem of prostitution is framed by Amnesty International. The gap in existing lines of scholarship on framing and prostitution policies, and framing and transnational advocacy networks, is the lack of descriptive research on international framing of prostitution by Amnesty International. The theoretical approach of this thesis is social constructivism, framing theory and previous studies on prostitution paradigms. By using framing theory together with previous studies on prostitution paradigms this thesis aim to specifically answer how the problem of prostitution is framed by AI; what they recognize as the problem, cause and solution to the problem. The methods to conduct this study is qualitative single case study, the data consists of official policy documents on sex work, further, the methods of analysis is qualitative textual analysis of the content of the data. The results of this study is that the problem of prostitution is given a human rights frame by Amnesty International that points out the legislative, social, and individual injustices caused by criminalization and that sex work is suggested to be decriminalized because sex workers rights are human rights that is constantly being violated at the hands of state and non-state actors.

This dissertation examines the participation and regulation of African American and Mexican women in the sex industry during the Progressive period of Texas to complicate ideas of womanhood. Between 1889 and 1925, sex workers survived, resisted, and contended with several shifts to their industry caused by the interventions of religious leaders, civil servants, community members, and reformers. Red light and related vice districts were socially- and legally-sanctioned tolerated forms of amusement and leisure throughout the state. Although black and brown madams, inmates, and prostitutes were not the most visible sex workers, they were often pivotal to that social and cultural fabric of numerous cities such as San Antonio, Fort Worth, Houston, and Laredo. The white slavery and antivice campaigns reshaped the discussions and reforms from the local to federal level. They created a social, economic, and political climate of stringent policing of vices that led to the eventual abolition of commercialized sex, where prostitutes of color embodied the worst tenets of womanhood. In contrast, the Mexican anarcho-socialist and African American progressive women’s club movements more broadly enhanced the views of women of color, demonstrating the ways that they (re)defined themselves. In this study, I argue that the intersection of prostitution and progressivism in the South/west represents a peculiar juncture in race- and sexual-making. At stake were the contested meanings of sexuality, race, and modernity under the growing vilification of vice by the national government and local groups in the Jim Crow Borderlands. While this dissertation contributes to the diverse historiographies of progressivism, the New South, and U.S. West, it also has important implications in enriching and facilitating the intersection of the histories of Mexican American and African American women in new and unconventional ways. Its significance is that it advances knowledge in topics of sexuality, race, and gender formation from a transborder and transregional framework. Moreover, it expands conceptual and methodological paradigms that presently exist in the field of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, by coupling them with the study of Jim Crow segregation of the Southwest. / text

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Prostitution has recently received increased attention in historical archaeology, but studies pertaining to this topic have been driven by artifacts instead of theory and therefore have been unable to address broader social and economic issues, as is the goal of the field. The approach developed here moves significantly toward this goal in the study of prostitution in the 19th-century mining West.World-systems theory is established as an organizing framework for the study of prostitution in the mining West, a vital internal periphery of the United States and a site of sudden, intense cultural collision due to the expansion of the capitalist world-economy. Prostitution is situated within the context of women's informal labor in peripheries to demonstrate how prostitutes supported formal labor in the mining West and therefore contributed to the maintenance and reproduction of capitalism.The archaeological approach attends to the cultural collision by recognizing gender, ethnicity, and class as active, interacting, and shifting constructions emphasized to assign oneself or others as appropriate to spaces, activities, or interactions and seeking to identify processes of identity formation through manipulated behaviors and symbols. It additionally calls for archaeologists to look at how each construction organized society through the other two.The approach concludes with the development of relevant research questions under the headings of negotiating with and navigating around Victorianism. The former attempt to understand the range of experiences of prostitutes in a way that listens to the "voices" of both prostitutes and Victorians, i.e., through a negotiation, to better realize the personal agency of prostitutes. The latter relate to the labor and economic contributions of prostitutes to the capitalist world-economy, to better recognize and understand their historical agency.Implementation of the approach occurs through its application to recently excavated data from a red-light district in late 19th-century Prescott, Arizona. The results demonstrate that the historical-archaeological study of mining-West prostitution, with the benefit of organizing theory, has excellent potential for providing information on economic processes surrounding an important form of women's labor in a periphery and on social processes that characterized an intercultural-frontier periphery associated with a hegemonic Victorian core.

This thesis is an exploratory study of the Kitchener John School Diversion Program. As a primarily community-based initiative, this program has been developed in response to a particular social problem, street prostitution. The primary focus of the program is to address the problem by targeting the clients of prostitutes. Using a contextual constructionist framework, eight qualitative, semi-structured interviews and three participant observation sessions were conducted to explore and understand how the John School works within the context of its objectives and mandate. Four research questions have been developed to achieve this and focus on (1) how program objectives are implemented within the operation of the diversion program, (2) how stakeholders problematize prostitution and its social actors, (3) what the social conditions and characteristics related to the social construction of prostitution are, as perceived by the social actors, and finally, (4) how the diversion program addresses the problem of prostitution. Through analysis of the data collected, key findings emerge that help to contextualize the diversion program within a broader understanding of its mandates and operations. Specifically, four objectives are identified as the primary goals of the school, being knowledge dissemination, accountability, diversion and change. There are notable discrepancies, however, in terms of how program staff interpret these objectives within the context of their program lectures and materials. Additionally, while strong themes and typifications emerge with respect to how prostitution and its social actors are problematized by the program staff, these themes and typifications have a tendency to conflict with one another when presented to the participants. For example, where prostitution is understood to be a social problem with a number of victims and perpetrators, the participants are frequently typified simultaneously as both victim and villain. In light of these discrepancies, however, it appears that the intended objectives and the actual operation of the diversion program both work towards the same, ultimate goal: change.

Prostitucija – tai reiškinys, veikiantis kaip tam tikrų visuomenės problemų indikacija, atskleidžianti socialines, ekonomines, švietimo bei lyčių lygybės problemas ir parodanti, jog tam tikri veiksniai visuomenėje yra kritinės būklės. Vertinant prostituciją iš kriminologinės pusės pažymėtina, jog tai neigiamas visuomenės reiškinys, sąlygojantis didėjantį nusikalstamumą. Kadangi prostitucijos problema yra labai plati, apimanti ne tik moterų, bet ir vyrų bei vaikų prostituciją ir kitus su prostitucija susijusius reiškinius, todėl šiuo tyrimu siekiama iškelti naujų klausimų diskusijoms, aptarti, kokį problematikos spektrą apima pati prostitucija ir kuo svarbi gatvės prostitučių asmenybių charakteristika. Darbo uždaviniai: 1. Pateikti prostitucijos sampratą ir charakteristiką. 2. Apžvelgti prostitucijos ištakas ir istorinę raidą Lietuvoje. 3. Išsiaiškinti prostitucijos, kaip socialinio reiškinio, problematiką. 4. Atlikti tyrimą apie Vilniaus gatvių prostitutes ir aptarti jų kriminologinę charakteristiką. Teisinėje literatūroje ir kituose informacijos šaltiniuose egzistuoja nema��ai prostitucijos sąvokų, tačiau tiksliai apibrėžtos ir įteisintos tam tikruose normatyviniuose aktuose nėra, todėl darbe buvo remtasi įvairių autorių ir šaltinių prostitucijos termino apibrėžtimis. Dažniausiai prostitucija įvardijama, kaip sistemingi lytiniai santykiai su įvairiais partneriais už materialinį atlyginimą, kuris yra vienintelis arba vienas iš pagrindinių pragyvenimo šaltinių, taip... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Prostitution is a phenomenon which acts as an indication of certain problems faced by the society, reveals social, economic, educational and gender equality issues and proves that particular factors in the society are in a critical status. From criminological point of view, the prostitution is considered a negative social phenomenon which further stipulates criminal rate. The issue of the prostitution is broad as it covers the prostitution of women, men and children as well as other prostitution related issues, therefore this research is aimed at raising new issues for discussion, presenting the scope of issues relating to the prostitution and the importance of personal characteristics of street prostitutes. The main tasks of the thesis: 1. present the concept and characteristics of prostitution; 2. review the origin of prostitution and its historical development in Lithuania; 3. examine the issues underlying the prostitution as a social phenomenon; 4. carry out a research on the street prostitutes in Vilnius and discuss their criminological characteristics. There is a number of definitions of prostitution presented in legal literature and other sources, however, no legal acts contain a thoroughly defined concept of prostitution. For this reason definitions of the term prostitution introduced by different authors and from different sources were used in this thesis. In most cases the prostitution is defined as systematic... [to full text]