Licensed or Licentious? Examining Regulatory Discussions of Stripping in Ontario

Law, Tuulia

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“…Studies related to morality and police specifically tend to focus on police as agents rather than subjects or targets (Bradford and Jackson, 2017;Gill, 2002). Much moral regulation literature has emphasized how public police morally regulate sex-related offenses and sex work (Johnson, 2010;Law, 2014), as well as offenses related to drugs, gambling, and alcohol consumption (Hathaway et al, 2011) -all commonly but not inevitably moralized elements. 3 The few studies of PEPP (Brunet, 2008;Reiss, 1988;Stoughton, 2017) neglect how risk management and moral regulation shape these practices, although one recent study of paid detail in the United States identifies risks but not how they are or should be managed (Lyle, 2015).…”

Section: Risk Management Moral Regulation and Public Policementioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Risk and Preempting Immorality in Private Employment of Public Police

Lippert

Walby

Zaia

2018

Social & Legal Studies

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This article examines risk management and moral regulation of private employment of public police (or PEPP). Drawing on a study of 104 North American police departments and analysis of interviews with police and private employers, police policies and procedures, and police assignment logs, we first identify PEPP contexts. We then argue that risk management is as much of as by public police officers. This risk management is sometimes preempted by moral regulation of police officers focused on objects, spaces, and suspect employers and which partially aims to preserve police legitimacy. We then discern four means of managing risk: department-coordinated assignments, officer reporting for superior assessment, private user liability insurance for temporarily hired officers, and opportunistic third-party commercial brokers. The article makes an empirical contribution by exploring risk management and moral regulation of PEPP and a conceptual contribution by lending more understanding to risk management and moral regulation in sociolegal studies.

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Section: Risk Management Moral Regulation and Public Policementioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Risk and Preempting Immorality in Private Employment of Public Police

Lippert

Walby

Zaia

2018

Social & Legal Studies

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“…What is notable here is that they recognize this legislation as a text that governs and structures how municipal officials are able to engage in their work. However, with regards to BRCs, unlike what Bruckert and Dufresne (2002) and Law (2015) found in their respective studies of strip club regulation in Ontario, the MGA does not lay out any particular regulations for municipalities to follow with regards to BRCs such as restrictions on the number of BRCs. With the MGA laying the foundation for the relationship between city officials and provincial legislation, bureaucrats also told me about the important and contradictory role that the Employment Standards Code (Government of Alberta, 2018) plays in the regulation of BRC sex work, to which I will now turn.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…After reviewing the work of Lam (2016Lam ( , 2019 and Law (2015), on the role of bylaws in the regulation of sex work and my earlier work with POWER (Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau, Work, Educate, Resist) my attention was drawn to the regulation of indoorbased sex work. As I reviewed newspaper articles about the bylaw change and looked at the Edmonton bylaws, my research problematic began to evolve around the question of how indoor-based sex work, and specifically how BRC sex work is organized by municipalities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Fourth, this dissertation extends on the research that has been done on sex work in Canada by detailing how Edmonton municipal law is both impacted and organized by the intersection of provincial and federal regulations. Following the work of Law (2015) and Bruckert and Dufresne (2002) I seek to illuminate the ways in which Alberta provincial legislation intersects with the federal Criminal Code and the municipal bylaw to organize and shape Edmonton BRC work.…”

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“Carceral Harm Reduction”: A Critical Analysis of the Municipal Licensing of Body Rub Centres in Edmonton, Alberta

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The legal regulation of sex work in Canada was fundamentally shifted by the Harper government in 2014 with the passage of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (2014). Within this new legal landscape, this dissertation investigates the regulation of indoor-based sex work by exploring the 2014-2015 changes to the Body Rub Centres (BRC) licensing regime and bylaw in Edmonton, Alberta. Scholars have extensively analyzed the effect that the Canadian Criminal Code has on sex work. There is less research on how municipal regulations shape indoor-based sex work, especially in BRCs. Fewer studies have explored the regulation of sex work in the prairies and in Alberta specifically. In this dissertation, I expand on sex work scholarship and attend to how municipal bylaws regulate BRC based sex work, and the complex relationship that bylaws have with other legal regulations, including provincial occupational health and safety laws and the federal Criminal Code. Inspired by Institutional Ethnography (Smith, 1987(Smith, , 2005) I used three methods to examine the organization of BRC work. These include textual analysis of City of Edmonton documents and provincial legislation; semistructured interviews with municipal officials and bureaucrats, members of communitybased organizations, and BRC sex workers and an owner; and participant observation sessions.

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“…Disabled, sex working, and housing insecure populations commonly meet at the intersections of racialization, precarious immigration status, gender divergence, and substance use. Group homes, emergency shelters, adult entertainment parlours (AEPs) and body rub parlours are all subject to municipal regulation, street level bureaucrats and moral discourse (Bruckert & Dufresne, 2002;Law, 2015).…”

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The Institutional Remains: Transinstitutionalization of Disability & Sexuality

Linton¹

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This research investigates access to sexuality for disabled people in Ontario. To understand sexual access, this research uses frameworks of disability justice and critical carceral studies to make explicit the pervasive the ongoing institutionalization of disabled people. Critically analyzing transinstitutionalization policy reveals surveillance, spatial regulation, and the criminalization of sex work as prohibitive barriers in disabled people's realization of their sexual desires. The City of Ottawa serves as a case study to interrogate the municipal regulation of sexuality through Minimum Separation Distance bylaws. The findings of this study illustrate the shared use of policy tools to invisibilize disabled people and sex workers through spatial regulation and segregation. These shared policy tools demonstrate the need for coalitional politics between sex workers and disabled people. The harms associated with transinstitutionalization and criminalization demand urgent action. Abolition responds to this urgency, demanding decriminalization, deinstitutionalization and decarceration.

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Licensed or Licentious? Examining Regulatory Discussions of Stripping in Ontario

Cited by 4 publications

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Managing Risk and Preempting Immorality in Private Employment of Public Police

Managing Risk and Preempting Immorality in Private Employment of Public Police

“Carceral Harm Reduction”: A Critical Analysis of the Municipal Licensing of Body Rub Centres in Edmonton, Alberta

The Institutional Remains: Transinstitutionalization of Disability & Sexuality

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