Tackling client violence in female street prostitution: Inter-agency working between outreach agencies and the police

Penfold, Clarissa; Hunter, Gillian; Campbell, Rosie; Barham, Leela

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“…These remits are often steered by government policy and guidance, as well as funding obligations (Carline & Scoular, 2017;Author A, 2016). Therefore, there has been a historically higher level of engagement with support service by street sex workers than their independent counterparts (Anon & Author C, 2017;Penfold et al, 2004). These support agencies may act as an intermediary to facilitate street sex workers to engage with the police directly, and/or practitioners may liaise with NUM and the local police themselves as part of the reporting process.…”

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Violent and Nonviolent Crimes Against Sex Workers: The Influence of the Sex Market on Reporting Practices in the United Kingdom

Connelly

Kamerāde

Sanders

2018

J Interpers Violence

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Previous research has shown that sex workers experience extremely high rates of victimization but are often reluctant to report their experiences to the police. This article explores how the markets in which sex workers operate in the United Kingdom impact upon the violent and nonviolent crimes they report to a national support organization and their willingness to report victimization to the police. We use a secondary quantitative data analysis of 2,056 crime reports submitted to the U.K. National Ugly Mugs (NUM) scheme between 2012 and 2016. The findings indicate that although violence is the most common crime type reported to NUM, sex workers operating in different markets report varying relative proportions of different types of victimization. We also argue that there is some variation in the level of willingness to share reports with the police across the different sex markets, even when the types of crime, presence of violence, and other variables are taken into account. Our finding that street sex workers are most likely to report victimization directly to the police challenges previously held assumptions that criminalization is the key factor preventing sex workers from engaging with the police.

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Violent and Nonviolent Crimes Against Sex Workers: The Influence of the Sex Market on Reporting Practices in the United Kingdom

Connelly

Kamerāde

Sanders

2018

J Interpers Violence

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“…From a policing perspective, the key benefits of partnering include the possibility of sharing some policing responsibilities with other regulatory agencies and rehabilitative support services in the community Ransley 2005, Corsaro et al 2009). In so doing, police and partner agencies are better placed to respond to high risk clients and locations in a cost effective and collaborative way (Braga et al 2001, Rosenbaum 2002, Penfold et al 2004. Police-led partnerships, including third party policing, have the overall capacity to facilitate a more effective use of resources than would be available to any one agency operating in isolation (Braga et al 2001, Rosenbaum 2002, Corsaro et al 2009).…”

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“…These partnerships remained within the criminal justice arena and were formed between the key players in crime control and law enforcement (Rosenbaum 2002, Murphy andWorrall 2007). More recent approaches have extended the notion of the 'policing family' to include other regulatory and rehabilitative agencies, and the broader community (Loader 2000, Penfold et al 2004, Huey 2008. This shift is informed by an increasing awareness that a number of regulatory and non-regulatory agencies already perform, or have the capacity to engage in, a range of activities traditionally associated with public policing.…”

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“…However, ensuring a philosophical fit between different partner agencies can be particularly challenging in the case of police partnerships. While police and potential partner agencies are likely to share a mutual interest in crime reduction and community safety, they are also quite likely to pursue different strategies to achieve these objectives (Penfold et al 2004, Sloper 2004). Police work is inherently reactive and often seen as punitive by rehabilitative community-based agencies (Loader 2000, Rosenbaum 2002).…”

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Police-led partnership responses to high risk youths and their families: challenges associated with forming successful and sustainable partnerships

Meyer

Mazerolle

2013

Policing and Society

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Past evaluations of police partnership approaches, including third party policing, document the implementation processes and test the overall impact on crime reduction, but few studies address the challenges inherent in the partnership formation phase. This paper uses a police-led partnership programme Á the Family Engagement Strategy (FES) Á to explore the barriers and challenges to forming effective and sustainable crime control partnerships. Using depth interviews with 17 agency representatives involved in the FES programme, we find that crime control partnerships are particularly difficult when there is a lack of philosophical fit between partner agencies; when there is a lack of clarity around the project's aims and objectives; when the programme fails to articulate each partners' roles and responsibilities; and when there is a lack of understanding of each other's capacities and boundaries.

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“…Violence from clients and police has been cross-culturally shown as ubiquitous in the FSW population, especially among women working on the streets (Jeal & Salisbury, 2004;Penfold, Hunter, Campbell, & Barham, 2004;Rhodes et al, 2008;Vanwesenbeeck, 2001). In contrast to a number of studies in which victimization experience was linked to sexual risk taking, the association was not confirmed in our analysis.…”

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Female sex work and HIV risks in Croatia

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The aim of this paper was to analyze and compare the prevalence of HIV-related sexual risk taking among Croatian female sex workers (FSW) in two major urban areas. Two groups of FSWs were interviewed in Zagreb (n=65) and Split (n=89). Participants' mean age was 33.3 (SD=8.32). Interviews were conducted by outreach organizations that provide health services to sex workers in the two cities. The study used a brief questionnaire with standardized behavioral and HIV knowledge indicators. The two groups of FSWs differed significantly in most socio-demographic and socio-sexual indicators. Women from the Split sample were somewhat younger (chi(2)=6.87, p<0.05), less educated (chi(2)=7.71, p<0.05), less likely to be single (chi(2)=19.81, p<0.001), and less likely to be unemployed (chi(2)=5.22, p<0.05). In addition, they injected drugs in higher proportion (chi(2)=35.03, p<0.001), but had less clients in the preceding month (chi(2)=12.54, p<0.001) and were less likely to be abused by them (chi(2)=7.18, p<0.01). HIV testing was significantly more prevalent among participants in the Split sample (chi(2)=4.95, p<0.05). In multivariate analysis, selling sex in Zagreb (OR = 14.48, p<0.01), having secondary or higher education (OR = 4.76, p<0.05), ever tested for HIV (OR = 8.34, p<0.05), and having assessed the risk of getting infected with HIV as high (OR = 0.23, p<0.05) were significantly associated with consistent condom use with clients in the last month. The findings of this first systematic study on HIV-related risks among FSWs in Croatia point to the need to update targeted intervention programs by improving the prevention of HIV risks associated with injecting drug use (Split) and by a more efficient HIV educational approach.

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Tackling client violence in female street prostitution: Inter-agency working between outreach agencies and the police

Cited by 45 publications

References 14 publications

Violent and Nonviolent Crimes Against Sex Workers: The Influence of the Sex Market on Reporting Practices in the United Kingdom

Violent and Nonviolent Crimes Against Sex Workers: The Influence of the Sex Market on Reporting Practices in the United Kingdom

Police-led partnership responses to high risk youths and their families: challenges associated with forming successful and sustainable partnerships

Female sex work and HIV risks in Croatia

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