Legalizing Prostitution

Those favoring legalized prostitution cite violent crimes against prostitutes and assert that victimized prostitutes would have recourse to the law for physical protection. Also, they note, police resources now disproportionately directed against prostitution practices and merchandising could be aimed at more serious offenders, which would result in a safer society. Indeed, say advocates, as an underground business prostitution is now controlled by organized crime and is ipso facto violent. Legalization would help limit organized crime's influence (Bovard, 1995).

There is a view that laws against prostitution criminalize what is really a moral offense (Snider, 1998) and disproportionately target women as offenders (Lefler, 1999), while on the whole failing to prosecute those who solicit prostitution services or abuse prostitutes. Katyal's view is that forced prostitution is a form of slavery, hence a violent crime, and puts p

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