Graduation Year
2020
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
American Studies
Reader 1
Julia Liss
Reader 2
Mark Golub
Reader 3
Todd Honma
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Abstract
This thesis analyzes New York City's legal responses to sex work from 1994-2020, by tracing the rhetoric and consequences of quality-of-life policing, the Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, and the newly formed coalition Decrim NY, which seeks to decriminalize sex work in New York City. The paper argues for a turn away from the rigid dichotomy between victimization and criminalization, and for a rhetorical and political turn towards the prison abolitionist possibilities of decriminalization.
Recommended Citation
Mammen, Eleanor, ""We Deserve Support and Liberation Instead": Analyzing New York City's Legal Responses to Sex Work 1994-2020" (2020). Scripps Senior Theses. 1591.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1591
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
