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This event occurs in the past.
CANCELLED: JurisTalk – “The Work of Sex Work: Prostitution, Unfreedom and Criminality at Work”
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
- In-person event
- 617, Pigiarvik, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
Speaker:
Dr. Katie Cruz
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol
The central and uniting demand of the sex worker rights movement around the world is the decriminalization of consensual adult sex work. This is often based on the recognition that criminal law intervention makes sex workers less, rather than more, safe. This paper focuses on a different justification for decriminalization. The “work” position argues that criminalization through a sexual offences framework prevents recognition that sex workers are workers by barring access to labour protections. In this paper, I argue that greater attention needs to be paid to “criminality at work”, so the application of criminal law to personal (sex)work relations in decriminalized contexts where labour law has (de jure) application. I defend a Marxist feminist framework for describing and evaluating criminalization of personal (sex)work relations.
Juris Talks Poster – Dr. Katie Cruz