Badges and Brothels: Police Officers' Attitudes Toward Prostitution

Jorgensen, Cody

doi:10.3389/fsoc.2018.00016

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“…As described in the welfarist approach, sex workers may be grouped into vulnerable victim or wilful offender categories, without recognising the complexities of autonomy and harm outlined above. Police attitudes towards, and understanding of, sex work matter because they may influence how officers exercise discretion (Jorgensen 2018). All occupational cultures have a vernacular which can reflect and reinforce particular prejudices.…”

Section: Police Reform and Occupational Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Policing vulnerability in sex work: the harm reduction compass model

Sanders

Vajzovic²,

Brooks‐Gordon

et al. 2020

Policing and Society

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This paper explores the current approach to the interaction between policing and sex work in England and Wales. It reviews the legal and policy context and outlines current policing guidance and priorities, introducing the Harm Reduction Compass as a mechanism to advance policing policy and optimise operational decision-making. Through critical discussion of occupational culture and reforms in policing, it also assesses how continuity, reliability, and transferability can be achieved across police forces within the existing hostile and outdated statutory framework. The Harm Reduction Compass (HRC) aims to focus policing resources on adult sexual exploitation and crimes experienced by sex workers by decoding the complexities of different individuals' personal circumstances. This paper proposes a new framework as a model to aid operational policing by triaging different scenarios to reach the most appropriate response. This new model, which identifies autonomy and harm as the most significant indicators, addresses harm and vulnerability holistically and combines policing with public health and communitybased approaches; this ensures the pathway to assistance and intervention is an integrated multi-partnership. The HRC is a step forward in progressing police culture around the use of language and in dealing with crimes against sex workers in the most appropriate way.

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Section: Police Reform and Occupational Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Policing vulnerability in sex work: the harm reduction compass model

Sanders

Vajzovic²,

Brooks‐Gordon

et al. 2020

Policing and Society

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“…These discussions often associate sex workers with sexually transmitted diseases, violence and drugs (Cusick, 2006;Sanders & Brents, 2017) and spur stereotypes that sex workers are shameless, dirty and unattractive (Ruys et al, 2008;Whitaker et al, 2011;Wong et al, 2011). Female sex workers are frequently disregarded and physically abused (Okal et al, 2011;Shannon et al, 2009), even by law enforcement officials (Jorgensen, 2018;Rhodes et al, 2008). Governments throughout the world regularly implement and enforce policies that criminalize sex work at the expense of protecting the human rights of sex workers (Sanders & Campbell, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Prejudice Towards Sex Workers Depends on the Sexual Activity and Autonomy of Their Work, Hobbies and Daily Activities

Kellie

Brooks

2021

Collabra: Psychology

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Women are more likely than men to be sexualized, objectified and dehumanized. Female sex workers experience stigma and violence associated with these judgements at far higher rates than other women. Here, we use a pre-registered experimental design to consider which aspects of sex work – the level of sexual activity, earned income, or perceived autonomy of the work – drive dehumanization. A first group of participants (N = 217) rated 80 vignettes of women varying by full-time employment, hobbies and interests on humanness. These ratings were subtracted from the ratings of a second group of participants (N = 774) who rated these same vignettes which additionally described a part-time job, hobby or activity that varied in sexual activity, income earned and autonomy over one’s actions. We find that women and especially men dehumanize women they believe are engaging in penetrative sex. We also find that women’s autonomy of, but not their income from, their sexual activity increases dehumanization. Our findings suggest that opposition to women’s ability to pursue casual sex and generalizations about the exploitative conditions of sex work may drive the harshest negative prejudice towards female sex workers and, by similar mechanisms, women’s sexuality in general.

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“…These discussions often associate sex workers with sexually transmitted diseases, violence and drugs (Cusick, 2006;Sanders & Brents, 2017) and spur stereotypes that sex workers are shameless, dirty and unattractive (Ruys et al, 2008, Whitaker et al, 2011Wong et al, 2011). Female sex workers are frequently disregarded and physically abused (Okal et al, 2009;Shannon et al, 2009), even by law enforcement officials (Rhodes et al, 2008;Jorgensen, 2018). Governments throughout the world regularly implement and enforce policies that criminalize sex work at the expense of protecting the human rights of sex workers (Sanders & Campbell, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prejudice towards sex workers depends on the sexual activity and autonomy of their work, hobbies and daily activities

Kellie¹,

Brooks²

2020

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Women are more likely than men to be sexualized, objectified, and dehumanized. Female sex workers experience stigma and violence associated with these judgements at far higher rates than other women. Here, we use a pre-registered experimental design to consider which aspects of sex work – the level of sexual activity, earned income, or perceived autonomy of the work – drive dehumanization. A first group of participants (N = 217) rated 80 vignettes of women varying by full-time employment, hobbies and interests on humanness. These ratings were subtracted from the ratings of a second group of participants (N = 774) who rated these same vignettes which additionally described a part-time job, hobby or activity that varied in sexual activity, income earned and autonomy over one’s actions. We find that women and especially men dehumanize women they believe are engaging in penetrative sex. We also find that women’s autonomy of, but not their income from, their sexual activity increases dehumanization. Our findings suggest that opposition to women’s ability to pursue casual sex and generalizations about the exploitative conditions of sex work may drive the harshest negative prejudice towards female sex workers and, by similar mechanisms, women’s sexuality in general.

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Badges and Brothels: Police Officers' Attitudes Toward Prostitution

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Policing vulnerability in sex work: the harm reduction compass model

Policing vulnerability in sex work: the harm reduction compass model

Prejudice Towards Sex Workers Depends on the Sexual Activity and Autonomy of Their Work, Hobbies and Daily Activities

Prejudice towards sex workers depends on the sexual activity and autonomy of their work, hobbies and daily activities

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