Abstract
<p>This paper is a qualitative based research, conducting in-depth interviews with 18 subjects consisting of GMS prostitutes working in Bangkok and other relevant informants. The objectives of this research are to study characteristics of the prostitution business in Bangkok and the adjacent areas and to study dynamics of causes, motivation, and the processes of how GMS women entering the prostitution business in Bangkok. The research results show that the entertainment places secretly provide prostitution services in Bangkok and the adjacent areas run the business openly. GMS women and Thai women providing prostitution services is illegal in Thailand. GMS women travelling to Bangkok to provide the prostitution services come from Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, China, and Cambodia, respectively. Although the government takes strict action, the prostitution business cannot be completely eradicated. The most important problem is corruption of government officials in various areas. As for the recommendations, it is advised that there should be a study of international practices consisting of crime control models, especially elimination of corruption of government officials in various areas, legalization model, or decriminalization model in the offence of the prostitution service to study the models suitable for the current situations.</p>
Highlights
The occurrence of capitalism, higher cost of living, and insufficient incomes of each family increasingly affect deviant behavior, crime behavior, or illegal careers under perspective of criminologists (Merton, 1938)
Types of service provision related to the prostitution service of Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) women in Bangkok and the adjacent areas are divided by the researcher into five groups as follows: 3.1.1 Massage Parlors
The researcher interviewed two prostitutes working in a massage parlor and a woman providing the service in a pub & bar secretly providing the prostitution service with details as follows: After interviewing the first Chinese woman, the researcher found that she comes from Yunan and has worked in a massage parlor on Rama IX Road for five months because her family has low incomes and her elder sister has done this work in Thailand for eight years
Summary
The occurrence of capitalism, higher cost of living, and insufficient incomes of each family increasingly affect deviant behavior, crime behavior, or illegal careers under perspective of criminologists (Merton, 1938). “Thailand is one of the most notorious places of the trafficking in women and children for the prostitution” (Romanow, 2012). The mentioned activity is illegal in Thailand (Physicians for Human Rights, 2004), the prostitution service is openly provided without legal fear. Apart from Bangkok, GMS women provide the prostitution service in the provinces adjacent to Bangkok. Due to the Order of National Council for Peace and Order no. 100/2014 dated 21st July 2014 relating to Monitoring Management of the Problems of Alien Labors and the Trafficking in Persons in Bangkok (The Order of National Council for Peace and Order, 2014), Bangkok is strictly controlled about the prostitution service, especially GMS women, labors, and children, causing change of the prostitution business in Bangkok Due to the Order of National Council for Peace and Order no. 100/2014 dated 21st July 2014 relating to Monitoring Management of the Problems of Alien Labors and the Trafficking in Persons in Bangkok (The Order of National Council for Peace and Order, 2014), Bangkok is strictly controlled about the prostitution service, especially GMS women, labors, and children, causing change of the prostitution business in Bangkok
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