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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
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Bureaucratic Justice

The Incarceration of Mainland Chinese Women Working in Hong Kong’s Sex Industry

Karen Joe Laidler

University of Hong Kong, kjoe{at}hkucc.hku.hk

Carole Petersen

University of Hawaii, Manoa

Robyn Emerton

University of Hong Kong

Since Hong Kong’s return to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) there has been a significant rise in the number of Chinese visitors to Hong Kong, including women crossing the border to engage in sex work. Sex work itself is not a crime in Hong Kong, but related activities, like soliciting, are prohibited. Sex work is treated as work for immigration purposes, and visitors who engage in work without an employment visa are breaching their conditions of stay. More than 10,000 mainland Chinese women have been arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced in recent years, causing the correctional population to expand beyond capacity. The authors examine the experiences of 58 incarcerated women in their encounters with the Hong Kong criminal justice system and find that women are processed in a highly routinized bureaucratic manner. They consider the purpose served by the largely bureaucratic form of justice that has emerged in response to migrant sex workers in Hong Kong.

Key Words: sex work • prostitution • Chinese migrant workers • courts • bureaucratic justice

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 51, No. 1, 68-83 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X06295538
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