The Proposed Re-introduction of Policing and Crime into the Regulation of Brothels in New South Wales

Crofts, Penny; Prior, Jason

doi:10.1080/10345329.2016.12036069

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“…21 It should be noted that trafficking was not raised as an issue by the Select Committee. Crofts and Prior argue that the decriminalisation of sex work in NSW radically reduces the profits associated with the sex industry and thus, is highly effective in reducing sex trafficking (Crofts and Prior 2016). 22 The recognition of different types of sex work is not sustained in the work of some theorists, including radical feminists, who focus only on the worst-case scenarios and preclude the idea of sex workers as active agents in a complex sex industry.…”

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How Sex Worker Activism Influenced the Decriminalisation of Sex Work in NSW, Australia.

Aroney

Crofts

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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In 2015, Amnesty International joined over 200 sex worker organisations in the call for nations to decriminalise sex work. Despite this, only two jurisdictions in the world, New Zealand and New South Wales (NSW; Australia), have adopted this approach. This article examines the role that sex worker activists played in sex work law reform in NSW through their representative organisation, the Australian Prostitutes Collective (APC). The APC produced and submitted groundbreaking research to the Select Committee of the NSW Legislative Assembly on Prostitution (1983–1986) whose recommendations laid the foundation for the decriminalisation of sex work in NSW. This article contributes to a developing history of the contribution of sex worker activism to law reform. It explores why it is so important that sex worker voices are included in the process of reform, and how meaningful consultation with sex workers helped shape and invoke a radical policy and legal transformation.

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