Law in action: Local-level prostitution policies and practices and their effects on sex workers

This article comparatively analyses city-based prostitution policies and practices and their effects on sex workers in countries that have adopted a partial criminalization model of intervention towards prostitution ? Belgium and Italy. The two case studies selected for this research ? the cities of...

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Main Author: Di Ronco, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: European journal of criminology
Year: 2022, Volume: 19, Issue: 5, Pages: 1078-1096
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