Sex Trafficking and Criminalization: In Defense of Feminist Abolitionism

Dempsey, Michelle

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Sex Trafficking and Criminalization: In Defense of Feminist Abolitionism

Michelle Madden Dempsey

Villanova University School of Law

November 16, 2010

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 158, No. 6, 2010
Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2010-20

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This article provides an overview of the feminist abolitionist response to sex trafficking and defends criminalizing the purchase of sex on grounds of complicity and endangerment.

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Keywords: Prostitution, trafficking, sexual offenses, feminism, abolitionism, criminal law, criminal theory, endangerment, complicity

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Date posted: November 17, 2010

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Dempsey, Michelle Madden , Sex Trafficking and Criminalization: In Defense of Feminist Abolitionism (November 16, 2010). University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 158, No. 6, 2010; Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2010-20. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1710264

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