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Social stigma and prostitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Shlomo Shoham  and
Giora Rahav
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This is an attempt to replicate the stigma theory of crime and deviation to the etiology of prostitution in authoritarian, oriental families. The Stigma Theory has recently been formulated in volume length. The present paper proposes to apply this theory in a researchable form to the genesis of prostitution as reflected in a proposed research population of North African prostitutes in Israel. It should be pointed out, however, that the present theoretical exposition transcends the topic of prostitution. The latter has been used as a seemingly adequate empirical referrent. If we regard prostitution as a sui generis type of deviant behaviour we do not exclude it, however, from the generic syndrome of social deviation. The present exposition might therefore be an instance of the application of the stigma theory to one type of deviation as an illustrative case which might apply mutatis mutandis to other types of crime and social deviation.

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Première Partie: Mémoires
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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , 1967 , pp. 479 - 513
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Copyright © 1967 International Society for Criminology

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