04142nam a22006255i 4500 978-981-99-8448-0 DE-He213 20251030110858.0 cr nn 008mamaa 231223s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819984480 978-981-99-8448-0 10.1007/978-981-99-8448-0 doi HV6001-7220.5 JKV bicssc 1F bicssc SOC004000 bisacsh JKV 1F thema Hung, Jason. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 68457 Legalising Prostitution in Thailand [electronic resource] : A Policy-Oriented Examination of the (De-)Construction of Commercial Sex / by Jason Hung. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024. VII, 85 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda SpringerBriefs in Sociology, 2212-6376 An Overview of Legalising Prostitution in Thailand -- Socioeconomic Construction of Prostitution in Thailand -- Institutional Construction of Prostitution in Thailand -- Revisiting Thailand’s Contemporary Policies on Tolerating “Illegal” Sex Work -- Comprehensive Social, Healthcare and Human Interventions in Curbing Prostitution -- Conclusions: How to Curtail the Legalised Prostitution Rates and Protect Sex Workers’ Rights. This book problematises the socioeconomic and institutional construction of prostitution in Thai contexts, identifying the root causes that propel underprivileged, discriminated and deprived women and girls to enter the sex industry. The author considers Thailand’s tolerance of prostitution and sex trafficking, despite criminalising prostitution since 1960. In doing so, they explain how criminalising prostitution does not lower the odds of women and girls engaging in commercial sex, but rather, legally marginalises them from receiving the necessary social and healthcare support. The book highlights that neither can Thailand pragmatically practice a zero-tolerance stance against prostitution - primarily due to severe police corruption and its heavy reliance on the sex tourism economy to support the national economic growth - nor is Thailand willing to fully crack down on the domestic sex industry. Engaging in an evaluation of how legalising and decriminalising prostitution, along with continuing to implement policies and interventions that alleviate the root causes of prostitution, can help Thailand build a more inclusive society and less-prostitution-reliant economy in the long term, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the relationships between society, inequality, governance, criminality, and policy in Southeast Asian contexts. It is relevant to students and researchers in sociology, socio-criminology, public policy, government and Southeast Asian studies. Criminology. 58246 Sex. 66477 Human rights. 58427 Industrial sociology. 61248 Human body Social aspects. 68458 Ethnology Asia. 66900 Culture. 59159 Asian Criminology. 68459 Sexuality Studies. 68460 Human Rights. 58427 Sociology of Work. 67399 Sociology of the Body. 68461 Asian Culture. 66902 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819984473 Printed edition: 9789819984497 SpringerBriefs in Sociology, 2212-6376 68462 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8448-0 ZDB-2-LCR ZDB-2-SXLC 56881 56881