The Protection of Children Involved in Prostitution (PCHIP) Act, which was passed in Alberta in 1999 and subject to immediate constitutional challenge, demonstrates the relationships between the fields of politics and law, and between youth criminal justice and child welfare legislation. The Act allowed authorities to apprehend and detain a youth engaged, or at risk of becoming engaged in prostitution for five to forty-seven days in a protective safe house. Though the PCHIP Act was passed as child welfare legislation, the punitive nature of the detainment led some to argue that the PCHIP Act was actually youth criminal justice legislation. This blurry boundary between child welfare and youth justice has negative consequences for particul...
Sex worker parents often lose custody of their children. The purpose of this research was to determi...
Legislators have been responding to the growing push to treat youth in the sex industry as victims o...
Prostitution, sex in exchange for consideration, has never been illegal in Canada; however, activiti...
The Protection of Children Involved in Prostitution (PCHIP) Act, which was passed in Alberta in 1999...
The purpose of this thesis is to look at the current treatment of children and youth who are being e...
Many Aboriginal women in Canada go missing each year and many of them are engaged in the sex trade i...
In Canada, the sale of sex for money was not illegal under the former legislative structure. Regardl...
In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that three sections of the Criminal Code of Canada pertai...
Domestic sex trafficking is a growing concern across Canada with the majority of victims being minor...
Fuelled by the murder and disappearance of sex workers in British Columbia, the Subcommittee on Soli...
In 2007, one current and two former sex workers, Amy Lebovitch, Terri-Jean Bedford and Valerie Scott...
This thesis sets out to examine the status of implementation of the United Nations Convention on the...
In this comprehensive literature review, the author examines child sexual exploitation from a Canadi...
The involvement of youth in prostitution has proven to be a difficult and complex issue for law enfo...
The debate over how to regulate sex work in Canada has long occupied courts, governments, policymake...
Sex worker parents often lose custody of their children. The purpose of this research was to determi...
Legislators have been responding to the growing push to treat youth in the sex industry as victims o...
Prostitution, sex in exchange for consideration, has never been illegal in Canada; however, activiti...
The Protection of Children Involved in Prostitution (PCHIP) Act, which was passed in Alberta in 1999...
The purpose of this thesis is to look at the current treatment of children and youth who are being e...
Many Aboriginal women in Canada go missing each year and many of them are engaged in the sex trade i...
In Canada, the sale of sex for money was not illegal under the former legislative structure. Regardl...
In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that three sections of the Criminal Code of Canada pertai...
Domestic sex trafficking is a growing concern across Canada with the majority of victims being minor...
Fuelled by the murder and disappearance of sex workers in British Columbia, the Subcommittee on Soli...
In 2007, one current and two former sex workers, Amy Lebovitch, Terri-Jean Bedford and Valerie Scott...
This thesis sets out to examine the status of implementation of the United Nations Convention on the...
In this comprehensive literature review, the author examines child sexual exploitation from a Canadi...
The involvement of youth in prostitution has proven to be a difficult and complex issue for law enfo...
The debate over how to regulate sex work in Canada has long occupied courts, governments, policymake...
Sex worker parents often lose custody of their children. The purpose of this research was to determi...
Legislators have been responding to the growing push to treat youth in the sex industry as victims o...
Prostitution, sex in exchange for consideration, has never been illegal in Canada; however, activiti...