In the following assignment, it is my intention to produce a research
report, examining women involved in street prostitution and how they
end up entering the criminal justice system. Within the report I will
look at three pieces of research, review their main findings, the type
of research that was used, and look to identify where I believe
further research is required.
My reason for choosing women in the criminal justice system is that I
have expressed an interest in the criminal justice setting and my
elective module is in this area. Anything that I learn from
undertaking this assignment will aid my understanding and increase my
knowledge base when undertaking my second placement.
Prostitution has been defined as:
"Prostitution involves the exchange of sexual services, sometimes but
by no means exclusively, sexual intercourse, for some kind of reward,
money, drink, drugs, a meal or a bed for the night" (Shaw & Butler
1998)
Another simple definition offered was, prostitution is:
"The purchase and sale, involving cash payment of sex"
This is the preferred definition of Glasgow's Street Working Women as
stated in: Stewart, A (2000).
Historical Background
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Throughout the UK and internationally, the issue of prostitution is
seen as an ever-increasing problem. For the purpose of this assignment
I will concentrate on the issue of prostitution within the United
Kingdom.
There has been a marked rise in the incidence of street prostitution
since the 1980s and a growth in the proportion of intravenous drug
users involved in street prostitution. In Glasgow, police estimate
that ar...
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...emale population in Cornton Vale
Prison is represented by black or ethnic minorities, (HM Inspectorate
of Prisons for Scotland 2001).
One Area that could use further research was highlighted in the Herald
newspaper this week; it has become a very worrying state that women
are apparently being coerced into working in illegal saunas as
prostitutes. Sauna owners are buying the women's debt they then 'work'
to 'pay off' the debt, according to retired Chief Inspector Nannette
Pollock " the wording that refers to these women is debt-bonded", (The
Herald 1/11/02)
One other area for further research could be the use of language used
within the criminal justice system, terms like 'common prostitute'
could and should be removed then maybe some of the stigmatisation that
these women are subjected to would also be removed.
With prostitution still arising and thriving in present day America the Argument and war waged on it by media has changed from an advocated perspective, to being seen as present day slavery among women. Especially with modern practices of forced trafficking and drugged prostitution. the views have changed from one of a women's private and personal freedom of choice, to one of "the ones who weren't lucky enough to get away from being drugged, kidnapped and forced into slaved prostitution."
“There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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Murphy, L. S. (2010). Understanding the Social and Economic Contexts Surrounding Women Engaged In Street-Level Prostitution. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 31(12), 775-784.
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