Final report on the evaluation of the First Offender Prostitution Program

Shively, Michael; Jalbert, Sarah Kuck; Kling, Ryan; Rhodes, William T.; Finn, Peter R.; Flygare, Chris; Tierney, Laura; Hunt, Dana E.; Squires, David; Dyous, Christina; Wheeler, Kristin

doi:10.1037/e442382008-001

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“…The French Parliament passed law 2016-444, which makes it illegal to pay for sex and imposes fines for clients up to nearly 4,000 euros. Moreover, convicted clients are required to attend classes where they are lectured about the conditions faced by prostitutes (known in the United States as John schools; see Shively et al [2012]). With the French Parliament giving its assent, France joined the group of European countries adopting the so-called "Swedish approach" to policies on sex for pay.…”

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Sex Work and Trafficking: Moving beyond Dichotomies

2017

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This contribution examines how feminist economists have conceptualized sex work and trafficking through the lens of agency and stigma. The ongoing debate about legalization has focused on sex workers' agency and choice, and on the role of stigma in shaping the supply of and demand for sex work. Building on the analysis advanced by contributions to this special issue, this study contends that theoretical and policy debates about sex work are dominated by false dichotomies of agency and stigma. It argues that the relationship between stigma and agency operates along a continuum of contractual arrangements that underpins a high degree of segmentation in the industry. The higher the stigma, the lower tends to be the agency. Current policies toward sex work therefore need reconsideration -especially mounting support for criminalization of clients, which, by increasing stigma, is likely to detract from the agency and the well-being of sex workers, however unintentionally.

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Sex Work and Trafficking: Moving beyond Dichotomies

2017

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“…Yet there has been criticism of the ability of such courses to re-educate clients, as it is claimed that they often merely move to other locations to engage in the sex industry (Sanders 2009, Kingston, 2013. Research has also been inconsistent in its evaluation of the success of such schemes with some American research showing a positive effect from such courses (Kennedy et al 2005), whilst others demonstrating no decline in attendees desire to buy sex (Shively et al, 2008). criticisms of the effectiveness and ability to help sex workers 'moving away from prostitution' (ibid: 2) has been identified by police officers and project workers who have employed ESO's.…”

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The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014: implications for sex workers and their clients

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Thomas

2015

Policing and Society

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The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 introduced new powers to deal with behaviour deemed to be "anti-social". In this paper we consider how the new law could be used against sex workers and their clients and the impact this may have. Although the new powers were not intentionally designed to respond to prostitution, we suggest that they will be utilised to tackle it. We argue that the law will be used inconsistently in a way which will go directly against policy which seeks to 'tackle demand' and take a less punitive approach to dealing with sex workers. Despite a policy shift to see sex workers more as victims and less as offenders, we draw on existing evidence to demonstrate that the new ASBO law will be utilised to exclude street sex workers from public spaces. We claim that a degree of 'policy re-fraction' will occur when the new laws are implemented by practitioners.

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“…Alongside their expansion, they have appeared in the popular media regularly and been subject to academic scrutiny (Monto, 1998;Campbell and Storr, 2001;Fischer et al, 2002;Wortley et al, 2002;Gibbs van Bruschot, 2003;Kennedy et al, 2004;Sanders, 2008;Shivley et al, 2008;Lovell and Jordan, 2012;Gurd and O'Brien, 2013;Cook, 2014;Majic, 2014). The academic literature has provided a number of useful and critical insights.…”

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“…Second, despite the low 'reoffending rates' that supporters of John Schools frequently tout, the literature questions the ability of John Schools to significantly change the attitudes of attendees and reduce their reoffending long-term (cf. Shivley et al, 2008;Lovell and Jordan, 2012). This work, however, has made very few connections to the growing body of work on the interface between policing the city and urban redevelopment (e.g.…”

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A vengeful education? urban revanchism, sex work and the penal politics of john schools

Cook

2015

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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This paper considers how useful the urban revanchism thesis is in helping us understand the John School, a 'mobile' educational programme that has been rolled out in the United States, Canada, the UK and South Korea which teaches those arrested for soliciting for the purposes of buying sex the negative consequences of their actions. The paper begins by unpacking the urban revanchism thesis and bringing it into dialogue with ideas on punishment. It then draws on a case study of one English John School in the anonymised town of Redtown. It demonstrates that the operations and rationales of the Redtown John School have traces of revanchism and that they are also infused by ideas and practices of care. As a result it argues that the urban revanchism thesis illuminates some important aspects of the Redtown John School while silencing or misreading others. The paper concludes therefore by calling for future research to think more broadly about punishment (rather than revanchism) in the city and its entanglements with care.

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Final report on the evaluation of the First Offender Prostitution Program

Cited by 40 publications

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Sex Work and Trafficking: Moving beyond Dichotomies

Sex Work and Trafficking: Moving beyond Dichotomies

The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014: implications for sex workers and their clients

A vengeful education? urban revanchism, sex work and the penal politics of john schools

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