{"id":6879,"date":"2023-04-23T21:48:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T01:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:53:58","slug":"sex-workers-are-left-out-in-the-cold-by-ottawas-unjust-conviction-amendments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/2023\/sex-workers-are-left-out-in-the-cold-by-ottawas-unjust-conviction-amendments\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Patrizia Gentile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Patrizia Gentile\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-authored by Professor Patrizia Gentile from the departments of Human Rights and Social Justice and Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies, the article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sex-workers-are-left-out-in-the-cold-by-ottawas-unjust-conviction-amendments-201810\">&#8220;Sex Workers Are Left Out in the Cold by Ottawa&#8217;s Unjust Conviction Amendments&#8221;<\/a> sheds light on the unintended negative consequences of recent Canadian legislation aimed at protecting sex workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp; amendments to Canada&#8217;s Criminal Code have made it easier for police to target and criminalize sex workers, ultimately making their work more dangerous and stigmatized. Professor Gentile and her co-authors argue that policymakers must prioritize listening to the voices and experiences of sex workers, who are most affected by these laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-authored by Professor Patrizia Gentile from the departments of Human Rights and Social Justice and Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies, the article &#8220;Sex Workers Are Left Out in the Cold by Ottawa&#8217;s Unjust Conviction Amendments&#8221; sheds light on the unintended negative consequences of recent Canadian legislation aimed at protecting sex workers. The&nbsp; amendments to Canada&#8217;s Criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8672,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions\/8672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}