Prostitución: ¿qué castigar? Trabajadoras, burdeles, rufianes y clientes

The present investigation analyzes the legal treatment of prostitution and its form of punishment when it is done coercively. From a Criminal Law perspective, there is some debate on whether it is necessary to expand the field of potential authors who, in some way, obtain economic or social benefits from prostitution:. Among the first are, on the one hand, the non-coercive pimps, basically, the owners of brothels and hostess clubs and ruffians, and, on the other hand, those who practice prostitution. Among the second are the customers. This article looks at the different models that speak of the punishment of this practice and exposes its characteristics, and then goes on to develop its central objective that to analyze the legitimacy of such models from a criminal perspective, which implies to investigate the basis of the punishment of the behaviors whose criminalization is defended.