Gendered Inequality and Legal Consciousness

How Law Regulates Women's Involvement in and Their Exit From Indoor Prostitution
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-26421-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Sustainable Development Goals Series

This book examines the role of law in women’s involvement in and their exit from indoor prostitution. It examines the historic development of the existing legal framework and the resulting polarised contemporary legal and policy framings of prostitution which have produced and reproduce two distinct ‘ideal’ legal subjects — the vulnerable victim and public nuisance that is the street prostitute and the agentic, entrepreneurial indoor prostitute.

Addressing the origins of these two subjects of prostitution and examining the discursive frameworks which have led to their solidification in law, this book aims to provide a robust, methodologically and theoretically sound evaluation of the law’s construction of indoor prostitution and the contested legal frameworks which emerged in response. Analysing empirical data from 53 women, 8 practitioners and three case studies of the law in action, and adopting a critical realist methodology, this book provides a detailed socio-legal examination of the law surrounding prostitution from the perspective of those it seeks to regulate. It is intended to provide evidence and guidance to support legislators and policy makers, and support for practitioners advocating for women involved in indoor prostitution. This work is timely given attention to the regulation of prostitution locally, regionally and globally, and the potential gender equality implications of different regulatory models.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Easton, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Prostitution und Sexindustrie: Soziale & Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Theoretical perspectives on prostitution and its regulation.- Chapter 3: The origin and development of contemporary prostitution law and policy in the United Kingdom.- Chapter 4: Law in Action Diversity in regulatory responses to prostitution in England & Wale.- Chapter 5: Intersections of agency and structure in womens involvement in indoor prostitution.- Chapter 6: Womens exit from indoor prostitution.- Chapter 7: Intersections of agency culture and structure How does law make a difference for women involved in indoor prostitution.- Chapter 8: Overcoming the stalemate centering gender equality in prostitution law reform.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Easton has recently completed a PhD in Law at Macquarie Law School, Australia. She is currently employed as a sessional academic across Criminology, Sociology, and Law at Macquarie University and Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at University of Sydney, Australia. She also works as a senior researcher for the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW. Prior to this, Helen spent 18 years in London as an academic, researcher and policy advisor in a range of roles, most recently as Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Criminology at London South Bank University (LSBU), UK.