Prostitution in relation to strain theory

Create a 12 pages paper that discusses prostitution in relation to strain theory. Based on a similar vision, many countries including New Zealand and Germany along with Australian provinces of New South Wales, Western Australia, Tasmania, South Australia have acknowledged prostitution as a legal profession (Cho, Dreher & Neumayer, 2013. Mossman, 2007).On the contrary, criminologists and various other experts view prostitution as an illegal and strictly immoral conduct which should be confronted with the imposition of rigid laws and well defined social policies. It is in this context that studies have revealed prostitution to act as a link between the increasing rates of various other criminal activities, such as drug trafficking, human trafficking and child maltreatment among others (Cho, Dreher & Neumayer, 2013). Not only sex crimes, but prostitution has also been accounted for degrading social health causing diseases such as Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and increasing mortality among women populaces in particular which further tends to restrict the healthy growth of the society. Hence, accumulatively, this particular professional dimension has been accused to cause social as well as economic hindrances and thus is justified to be treated as a social malpractice or illegal conduct (Stransky & Finkelhor, 2008).Undoubtedly, whether to categorize the conduct of prostitution as legal or an illegal profession has presented a debatable question. In order to explain this particular apprehension, the study will apply the strain theory in relation to prostitution with the expectation that such elaboration may assist in obtaining a critical idea surrounding this issue. The study will initially focus on describing the basic tenets of strain theory, towards elaborating on prostitution in relation to the specifications mentioned under this functionalist theory through a literature review mechanism.