RT Article
T1 From law enforcement to protection?: interactions between sex workers and police in a decriminalized street-based sex industry
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 57
IS 3
SP 570
OP 588
A1 Armstrong, Lynzi
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1565171381
AB Legislative approaches to the sex industry are hotly debated internationally and in recent years interest in decriminalization of sex work has been growing. However, activities relating to commercial sex remain criminalized in many parts of the world. Street-based sex work is most often criminalized and is often more aggressively policed than indoor work. This paper explores changes in the relationship between police and street sex workers in New Zealand since the decriminalization of sex work in 2003, from the perspective of sex workers, police and support agencies. This paper concludes that decriminalization enabled a dramatic shift in the approach to policing sex work and emphasizes the importance of these findings in the context of global debates on prostitution law reform.
K1 Sex work
K1 Decriminalization
K1 Policing
K1 Violence
K1 Sexarbeit
K1 Prostitution
K1 Polizeiarbeit
DO 10.1093/bjc/azw019