private moral behaviour through social control measures (Vago & Nelson, 2014). Those in favour of legalizing prostitution suggest that it will increase security issues, improve public health, combat poverty, reduce crime, increase revenue for government and view it as victimless crime of consenting adults (Debatepedia, 2010). Prostitutes depend on this profession as a means of financial income
Ripstein urges us to “abandon” John Stuart Mill’s harm principle in favour of the following alternative- the Sovereignty Principle, that is, “each person is entitled to use their own powers as he or she sees fit, consistent with the ability of others to do the same. The consistency is achieved through the joint ideas of non-interference and voluntary cooperation.” (Ripstein, p. 233). Just like Mill, Ripstein hopes to secure individual freedom and independence by limiting the reach of criminal law