Criminalisation of sex workers: rethinking the public order

Radačić, Ivana; Antić, Marija

doi:10.1080/13642987.2021.2023132

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“…Stigma associated with sex work and/or HIV in both countries and globally may impede development of family-based interventions. However, in conjunction with needed local advocacy for decriminalizing sex work (Radačić & Antić, 2022) and drug use (Matyushina-Ocheret, 2020), such efforts might help strengthen and sustain outcomes.…”

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Combination Microfinance and HIV Risk Reduction Among Women Engaged in Sex Work

Witte

Yang

McCrimmon

et al. 2022

Research on Social Work Practice

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The purpose of this paper is to summarize 15 years of intervention science in combination HIV prevention and microfinance among women engaged in sex work (WESW) in Central Asia, identifying gaps in our understanding and recommendations for future studies. We begin by describing the emergence of HIV/STI risk among WESW in the Central Asia region, specifically Mongolia and Kazakhstan, and bridge to the formative stages of our methodology as well as completed prevention intervention studies. We describe the development of combining HIV prevention with asset-based microfinance interventions, lessons learned, and contributions these studies make to HIV prevention, intervention science, and practice. We end by recommending next steps to move prevention science forward in this area and among this key population, which continues to be underserved in HIV prevention science worldwide.

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Section: Discussion and Applications To Practicementioning

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Combination Microfinance and HIV Risk Reduction Among Women Engaged in Sex Work

Witte

Yang

McCrimmon

et al. 2022

Research on Social Work Practice

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“…5 Organising is proscribed in the Criminal Code. 6 The case-law analysis shows that the primary target of the laws are (female) sex workers, working in the street or independently in apartments, the majority of whom are in a difficult socio-economic situation (Radačić and Antić, 2022). 7 It also shows discrepancies with the human rights standards.…”

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Sex Workers’ Professional Experiences in the Interplay of Structure and Agency in Croatia

Radačić,

Antić,

Adamović

2023

Polit. misao (Online)

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There are still relatively few studies on job satisfaction and the quality of work ‎among sex workers, partly due to the ideologies surrounding sex work. In this ‎paper we move away from dichotomous thinking and investigate the professional experiences of indoor independent sex workers in Croatia against the ‎background of criminalised context and gendered socio-economic realities. ‎We look into sex workers’ motivations, perceptions and experiences, their ‎control and safety strategies.‎ The study shows that despite many structural constraints on the sex workers’ agency, all participants exercise some degree of autonomy and control ‎over their working lives. The factors that seem to be the most relevant in terms ‎of their ability to set up their own conditions, which in turn influences their experiences, are their economic situation, motivation and self-perception. Negative experiences mostly stem from criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex ‎work, which affects women primarily, and creates more risks to their health ‎and safety. The results of the study call for integrative policy approaches, ‎which presuppose full decriminalisation of adult voluntary sex work.

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“…While in a number of European countries, selling sex is not forbidden, for countries in central and eastern Europe as well as central Asia (together with Croatia), selling sex remains criminalised to date on the pretext of public order and peace. According to Radačić and Antić (2022), noncriminalisation of trading in sex among much of Europe is particularly strengthened by both the legalisation model and the client criminalisation model in which none of the two renders sex workers criminal. A similar trend was undertaken by the post-apartheid government of South Africa, which decriminalised sex work through a resolution in 2017 (Punt, 2021).…”

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Towards deconstructing urban tourism within the framework of commercial sex work in Uganda

Mwesigwa¹,

Oboi²

2022

J. Hosp. Manage. Tourism

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There is great anxiety that present day urban authorities are not considering the amount of heterosexual activities that are neither among legitimately married couples nor casually relating friends. This anxiety has brought much pressure onto the civil society that aims to promote morality in society in addition to the religious bodies that aim to encourage positive morals among their congregates. Yet, the extent to which commercial sex work is capable of increasing the level of urban tourism in the 21st century is fascinating. Bearing in mind the different challenges and the proof of dearth of statistics on commercial sex work in Uganda, the emphasis of this paper is on how urban authorities can exploit the growing industry of commercial sexual activities to enhance urban tourism. Through an intensive review of available literature, this paper has established that commercial sexual activities are one of the central tourist attraction products in a number of urban areas in Uganda even though it lacks official documentation. Consequently, neither the urban authorities nor the tourism agency cares paying attention to the huge tourism potential hidden in the commercial sex industry. It is encouraged that urban authorities document the number of participants in commercial sex work so that they can be used to enhance urban tourism. This study is useful to urban authorities and other key stakeholders working with urban populations particularly at a time when nations are turning to domestic tourism.

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Criminalisation of sex workers: rethinking the public order

Cited by 7 publications

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Combination Microfinance and HIV Risk Reduction Among Women Engaged in Sex Work

Combination Microfinance and HIV Risk Reduction Among Women Engaged in Sex Work

Sex Workers’ Professional Experiences in the Interplay of Structure and Agency in Croatia

Towards deconstructing urban tourism within the framework of commercial sex work in Uganda

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