SW 527 Criminalization and the Sex Trades: Social Work’s Complicated Entanglements

The sex trades will serve as a site for exploring carceral logics and criminalization in the U.S. This course navigates the intersecting histories of settler colonialism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and classism woven through the regulation and policing of sexuality and sexual services in order to shed light on contemporary social work discourses, policies, and practices that support criminalization. This course also engages a range of feminist theories that shape sex trades discourse.