Policy field of prostitution: the case of Lithuania
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4. term
Publication year
2018
Submitted on
2018-05-31
Pages
56
Abstract
Prostitution as an occupation prevails within the society from ancient times. However, just recently this phenomenon started to receive more attention in the international and national setting, the states intend to find the best way to address and regulate it. Various agents involved, such as international and national organisations, governments, NGO’s, human right activists, social movements, Church etc. holds opinion about the way prostitution should be governed. These diverging opinions, discourses of prostitution dominating within the state and also historical aspects underly the way prostitution is controlled. Besides, prostitution in itself is a delicate subject, thus, prostitutes are often seen as victims and sexually exploited. This Master thesis offers a critical analysis of the prostitution policy field in Lithuania. By employing Carol Bacchi’s approach to policy analysis What’s the Problem Represented to be? (WPR), it breaks apart and interrogates the policy field of prostitution. Besides, it reflects on the construction and framing of the discourse of prostitution as well as on the existing standpoint, which all underlie the legal regulations and explain state’s rationalities behind them. The findings of the research suggest that the state of Lithuania frames prostitution as just being forced, therefore, the outcome of human trafficking, while other prostitutes are criminalised and silenced. The overall discourse of prostitution is rather hostile which explains the current position and legal framework adopted.
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