Prostitution: "just another job"?

The author of the article "No trafficking? Well, there's a hell of a lot of women suffering" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/25/catherine-bennett-prostitution-trafficking) writes a very acid critique about what some british achademics have said about looking the situation of inmigrant sex workers with an "objective eye". Their supposed serious emphiric investigations concluded that prostitution, for some of the women that they interviewed is just another job, and actually one that is better that others that could provide them eaven worse life conditions in terms of salaries and working hours. According with the author, I believe that those achademics where very irresponsable at reducing a very serious international problem that ends with the lifes of thouthands of women and girls all over the world every year, to the specific conditions that a group women have had the luck to find in london. The fact of dividing sex workers between "trafficked and not-trafficked" seemed to them enough to ensure that for a great propotion of those women "the job" can be a good opportunity to have a better quality of life and to improve the lifes of their families at home; ignoring the -to my judge- most important fact that is that prostitution has one of the greatest risk to be attacked or eaven murdered between all of the activities that a person can do in the world.

Criminal Laws

Ok... This topic is very, very hard to discuss, specially if you have to write an opinion in less than an hour and a half. Lets see... I don't really have a strong possition about capital law, on one hand there is the most popular opinion (the "ilustrated and civilized" one), that you commonly appeal to; the one that says that nobody has the right to decide if an other human being should live or die, that every one has the right to rehabilitate and that to sentence someone to deth is against the universal values or human rights.

But on the other hand, if you imagine that some day, somebody could take someone you love from you for any reason, or destroy the lifes of many people commiting hideus acts that can't be justified by anyone... the first argument starts to sound a little empty. I don't think that capital laws could reduce criminality here or any where alse: they haven't in the past and they won't do it now, but I wonder: should society spend resources that could go to health, education and social programs in mantaining people that have caused nothing more than damage and pain to others? But again, I'am thinking in extreme cases of murderers, violators and dictators; I don't think that capital law is a solution to anything, I just think that in very specific cases it could do less damage than a life sentence.

I think that if criminality rates are going up it's because of the way of life we are forced to live, where the mayority of people get excluded from the "good life" and then get punished for it, and if we want to stop that rates continue to rise we should think about how to eliminate this problem from it's roots, and not to think that prision is an answer to anything. I have to accept that I have never been a "victim of crime", not in a direct way... a couple of times my cellphone has being stoled, but I didn't realise so it wasn't traumatic. Maybe if that was different my opinion would be to...