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Legal Regulation of Prostitution in the Czech Republic
Chocholoušová, Karolína ; Vedral, Josef (advisor) ; Rajchl, Jiří (referee)
Legal Regulation of Prostitution in the Czech Republic Abstract Prostitution and questions about its legal framework have accompanied humanity since time immemorial. For many centuries periods of prohibition, when prostitution was banned and prosecuted, alternated with periods of regulation, when prostitution was allowed within the legal framework on the territory of the present-day Czech Republic. Since 1992 an abolitionist approach to prostitution has been in place, meaning that prostitution is neither prohibited nor expressly permitted by law. The only regulatory element in the current concept of abolitionism is the power of municipalities to issue generally binding by-laws to ensure local public order. Using by-laws, municipalities are allowed to regulate or even ban prostitution from local public grounds. Since the establishment of the independent Czech Republic, several proposals have emerged with the objective to "solve" abolitionism, demanding a change in the legal approach either towards repression or, more often, towards the creation of legal framework. However, none of them has yet been adopted. This is partly because there is no general agreement on what is the right "solution" and partly because the adoption of prostitution laws is not in accordance with the Czech Republic's obligations under...
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