Labelling Masyarakat Terhadap Anak Pekerja Seks Komersial di Jombang

Abstract

This research about society labelling to child of a commercial sex worker. In the social science discipline, prostitution is
said to be a social disease or also called social pathology. A person who enters the world of prostitution is only because of
ignorance, poverty, fraud, and frustration. So in this case not only the perpetrators of the child of a commercial sex worker
but their children also get a bad stigma from the community. The children of these the child of a commercial sex worker
are considered to have a bad influence on other children, so the children of the child of a commercial sex worker often get
negative labels from the community. The purpose of this study is to identify (1) the forms of labeling that occur in child
the child of a commercial sex worker (2) the labeling processes that occur in child of a commercial sex worker and (3) to
analyze the impact of labeling done by the community on child of a commercial sex worker. This type of research is a
qualitative study with data collection techniques of observation and in-depth interviews. The informants of this research
are the people who label children of the child of a commercial sex worker. The results of this study indicate that the form
of labeling that occurs is in the form of giving a negative stigma such as the prostitute child carrying a disease or a bad
influence carrier who is then alienated by the community so that the child of the prostitute cannot get a relationship with
other children because other children are forbidden by the community to get along with child prostitutes.
Keywords: The child of a commercial sex worker, Labelling