Deborah Brock is a professor specializing in the areas social, moral, and sexual regulation.
She is currently an associate professor (Arts) at York University and she teaches Crime and Criminological Theory; Social Regulation; Gender and Sexualities; Historical Sociology.
If sex workers were able to do their work in a secure, less criminalized area they would not be visible and therefore would not be seen as immoral and in turn prosecuted much less.
She does definitely make the distinction between adult sex work and that of juvenile sex work because adults can consent to the activity and many use it as a source of employment however most of the time juveniles are exploited by older people in a position of power.
Chapter two focuses on how the murder of a young boy started a moral panic and the media made prostitution seem as though it was a big social problem.
The media and different groups start to make a big deal out of a small issues and soon everybody wants more police and more jails which leads to more criminal records which forces women to sell their bodies because they cannot get another job.
Basically moral and discriminatory bias is punishing the most disadvantaged women - those who work the streets- while doing nothing to understand why they are there in the first place.
Restricting the communication for the purpose of prostitution did not work to get the sex workers of the street even though there were a huge number of arrest.
She examines how laws have been in place to govern sex work since 1839 and is either seen as a public nuisance or a morality problem.
Sex work is sometimes the only option for women to support themselves because they are, many times, only given access to jobs that provide very low wages, are in the services sector and have little chance of advancement (Brock, 1998, p. 14-15).
She also explains that the laws to stop prostitution do not work and mainly come from the moral panic that the media creates (Brock, 1998, p. 138).
Her major contribution of feminist criminology is in how moral panics about prostitution create laws that do not work in fixing the problem.