What\u27s Law Got to Do with It?: An Overview of CEDAW\u27s Treatment of Violence Against Women and Girls Through Case Studies

Article published in the Michigan State Law Review

What's Law Got to Do with It?: An Overview of CEDAW's Treatment of Violence Against Women and Girls Through Case Studies

Article published in the Michigan State Law Review

The Forum: Spring 2004

Spring 2004 journal of the Honors Program at the University of North Dakota. The issue includes stories, poems, essays and art by undergraduate students.https://commons.und.edu/und-books/1054/thumbnail.jp

The Forum: Fall 2003

Fall 2003 journal of the Honors Program at the University of North Dakota. The issue includes stories, poems, essays and art by undergraduate students.https://commons.und.edu/und-books/1052/thumbnail.jp

The Forum: Winter 2004

Winter 2004 journal of the Honors Program at the University of North Dakota. The issue includes stories, poems, essays and art by undergraduate students.https://commons.und.edu/und-books/1055/thumbnail.jp

ON COMPREHENSIVE PROSTITUTION REFORM: CRIMINALIZING THE TRAFFICKER AND THE TRICK, BUT NOT THE VICTIM—SWEDEN’S SEXKÖPSLAGEN IN AMERICA

In the last decade, the police, the courts, academics, non-governmental organizations, and the general public have increasingly realized that people in industrialized nations around the globe continue to sexually enslave others. This Note posits that the feminist abolitionist goal of eradicating prostitution aligns with an effective fight against sexual exploitation, including sex trafficking. This Note’s purposes follow: 1) examine the Nordic movement to combat sex trafficking through a criminal justice approach of partial decriminalization; 2) advocate that pimping, tricking, and trafficking remain criminalized, and that the United States continue to use public shaming and “john schools” to deter men from buying sex; and 3) advocate that the United States decriminalize the sale of sex, reform the social service system to increase help offered to prostituted individuals, and conduct outreach to facilitate intervention points for prostituted individuals and those at risk for prostitution