Public Opinion on Prostitution Law Reform in Canada
| العنوان: | Public Opinion on Prostitution Law Reform in Canada |
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| المؤلفون: | John Lowman, Christine Louie |
| المصدر: | Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 54:245-260 |
| بيانات النشر: | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress), 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Law reform, Government, business.industry, Appeal, Assertion, Decriminalization, League, Public opinion, Law, Opinion poll, Sociology, business, Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| الوصف: | This research note examines prohibitionist claims about public opinion on Canadian prostitution law. It focuses on (1) the Christian Legal Fellowship, REAL Women of Canada, and the Catholic Civil Rights League (CLF) factum to the Superior Court of Ontario in Bedford v Canada (2010), which claims that most Canadians support prohibition; and (2) Prime Minister Stephen Harper's assertion that most Canadians support the prohibitionist stance underlying his government's decision to appeal the Superior Court of Ontario's decision to strike down several prostitution laws (Bedford v Canada 2010). A review of seven national public opinion polls conducted between 1984 and 2011 reveals that, contrary to the CLF and the prime minister's claims, since 2005 a small majority of Canadians favour some form of decriminalization of consensual adult prostitution. The surveys reveal marked gender differences in attitudes to prostitution law reform, with men being more likely to favour decriminalization than women. Three Angus Reid surveys (2009, 2010, 2011) suggest that there is little support for the “Nordic model” of demand-side prohibition. |
| تدمد: | 1911-0219 1707-7753 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::04ef2aceb1f6773bb58a5b393911bdac https://doi.org/10.3138/cjccj.2011.e.34 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........04ef2aceb1f6773bb58a5b393911bdac |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19110219 17077753 |
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