d reduce the opportunity for official corruption, that the failure to provide prostitution might promote rape, and that the spread of venereal disease might be better controlled by registration and health inspections. Still, the ALI did not decide to recommend legalization (Green, 1992, 196-197).
These particular arguments on both sides continue to be heard to this day. One group promoting the legalization of prostitution is known by the acronym COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), a group dedicated to redefining prostitution as a social problem, removing it from the arenas of sin and crime. COYOTE has proposed the following:
1) prostitution is work, not crime;
2) prostitutes choose to work at their occupation; and
3) prostitution, as work that people have a right to choose, should be respected and protected like any legitimate service occupation (Jenness, 1990, 403 420).
Skolnick and Dombrink (1978) note that over the past twenty years, there has been a trend in U.S. public policy and law toward the reduction of the scope of the criminal law in the area of so called "victimless crimes." As many of the traditional vices are decriminalized and administrative agencies replace earlier models of morality enforcement, the legal focus shifts from the relative simplicity of crimin
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