Assessing Prostitution Policies In Europe

Author : Synnøve Økland Jahnsen,Hendrik Wagenaar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429637896

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Assessing Prostitution Policies in Europe by Synnøve Økland Jahnsen,Hendrik Wagenaar Pdf

Once again, prostitution occupies a prominent position on public and political agendas, both nationally and internationally. A topic of concern and interest within social and academic realms, it is a highly moralised, contested issue that is at the centre of heated and drawn-out debates. With each chapter dedicated to a separate country and written by a national authority on the subject, Assessing European Prostitution Policies seeks to explore how prostitution is regulated in 21 European countries, thus drawing out important implications for an effective and humane prostitution policy. Indeed, this innovative volume brings together systematic accounts of how national and local forms of governance influence the commercial market for sex as well as the lives of sex workers and third parties. All chapters cover the history of prostitution policy, national laws regulating prostitution, policy formulation and implementation, the national discourse on prostitution, the gap between national and local regulation, the impact of policy on the lives and rights of sex workers, and sex worker advocacy organizations. In addition to this, the authors examine and highlight how immigration, labour, fiscal and welfare law have as much impact on the sex trade as designated prostitution law. A unique interdisciplinary title that is comprehensive in its coverage, Assessing European Prostitution Policies will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, sex worker advocacy organisations and policy makers interested in fields such as Sexuality and Prostitution, Public Policy, Criminology and Gender Studies.

Author : Wagenaar, Hendrik,Amesberger, Helga,Sietske Altink
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447324249

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Designing Prostitution Policy by Wagenaar, Hendrik,Amesberger, Helga,Sietske Altink Pdf

Most discussions about approaches to regulating prostitution occur at the national level--battles, for example, between prohibition and legalization. In reality, however, the impact of prostitution is felt most keenly at the local level, and it is local measures that can have the greatest effect. This book explores various approaches to regulating prostitution and other sex work at the local level, analyzing their aims and outcomes and offering guidance on designing effective regulations through available policy instruments.

Author : Greggor Mattson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137517173

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The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform by Greggor Mattson Pdf

The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globalization translates into policies to recognize sex workers in some countries, punish prostitutes' clients in others, and protect victims of human trafficking in them all.

Author : Sharron FitzGerald,May-Len Skilbrei
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030911744

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Sexual Politics in Contemporary Europe by Sharron FitzGerald,May-Len Skilbrei Pdf

The legal regulation of gender and sexuality has undergone dramatic changes throughout Europe in the last 40 years and this has shaped what it means to be a European citizen. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary research, this book uses the discourses around current European sexual politics as an entry point to interrogate how, and with what effect, the EU and its Member States harness issues of gender and sexuality to support issues of higher political importance. It takes recent and ongoing political debates and legislative changes around prostitution and sexual assault as a focus. Using four national case studies: Poland, Germany, Sweden and Italy it illuminates how the EU’s desire for increased harmonisation across the Union around gender and sexuality norms and values operates differently and with specific effects across Member States. The book’s structure provides a detailed map of how and why contemporary European sexual politics is changing, and how this contributes to establishing European norms and values in developments in law and policy around prostitution and sexual assault. By examining how and why the EU and its Member States implement their policies in these two policy areas we can begin to illuminate how contemporary European sexual politics serve some groups’ interests while marginalizing ‘Others’.

Author : Lucrecia Rubio Grundell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031122095

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Security Meets Gender Equality in the EU by Lucrecia Rubio Grundell Pdf

This book explores the triangular dynamics of securitisation and desecuritisation that underpin the EU’s approach to trafficking in women for sexual exploitation. That is, the progressive securitisation of trafficking in women for sexual exploitation within the EU’s anti-trafficking policies and the existence of two distinct and competing approaches that coexist among feminist struggles against such trend and that largely follow the two opposing views that structure feminist debates on prostitution: a neo-abolitionist approach, on the one hand, that is increasingly defended from within EU institutions, and has therefore become increasingly entangled with the securitisation of trafficking in women; and a sex work approach, on the other hand, that has been largely relegated to the domains of academia and civil society. As such, this book addresses the intersection of security and feminist neo-abolitionism within the EU’s anti-trafficking policies, as well as the de-securitising potential of the anti-trafficking advocacy of both neo-abolitionist and sex worker organisations operating at EU level. This book is unique in that it unprecedentedly brings together three bodies of literature that rarely interact: Critical Security Studies, EU Gender Studies and the feminist literature on prostitution and trafficking in women and demonstrates their fruitful interaction in an extensive empirical analysis of the EU’s internal security, violence against women and anti-trafficking policies.

Author : Mikkel Jarle Christensen,Kjersti Lohne,Magnus Hörnqvist
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000801859

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Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context by Mikkel Jarle Christensen,Kjersti Lohne,Magnus Hörnqvist Pdf

This book critically investigates Nordic criminal justice as a global role model. Not taking this role for granted, the chapters of the book analyze how Nordic approaches to criminal justice were folded into global contexts, and how patterns of promotion were built around perceptions that these approaches also had a particular value for other criminal justice systems. Specific actors, both internal and external to the region itself, have branded Nordic criminal justice as a form of ‘penal exceptionalism’ associated with human rights, universalistic welfare, and social cohesion. The book shows how building and using the brand of Nordic criminal justice allowed stakeholders to champion specific forms of crime control across a variety of criminal justice areas in both domestic and international settings. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of criminal justice, international law and justice, Nordic and Scandinavian studies, and more widely to the social sciences and humanities.

Author : Susan Dewey,Isabel Crowhurst,Chimaraoke Izugbara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351133890

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Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research by Susan Dewey,Isabel Crowhurst,Chimaraoke Izugbara Pdf

Author : Isabel Crowhurst,Susan Dewey,Chimaraoke Izugbara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351133739

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Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution by Isabel Crowhurst,Susan Dewey,Chimaraoke Izugbara Pdf

Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution is about sex work and prostitution third sector organizations (TSOs): non-governmental and non-profit organizations that provide support services to, and advocate for the well-being of people operating in the sex industries. With a focus on three vast and extremely diverse regions, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, this book provides a unique vantage point that shows how interlinked these organizations’ histories and configurations are. TSOs are fascinating research sites because they operate as zones of contestation which translate their understandings of sex work and prostitution into different support practices and advocacy initiatives. This book reveals that these organizations are not external to normative power but participate in it and are subject to it, conditioning how they can exist, who they can reach out to, where, and what they can achieve. Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution is a resource for scholars, policymakers, and activists involved in research on, and work with third sector organizations in the fields of sex work and prostitution, gender and sexuality, and human rights among others.

Author : Cristina Cayo Ascencio
Publisher : buch & netz
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783038056881

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Silenced Voices: Sex Workers’ Human Rights in Europe by Cristina Cayo Ascencio Pdf

Changes in the regulation of sex work have been observed over the last two decades. The trend towards the partial criminalization of sex work, targeting clients, has gained significant support at the European level under the arguments of gender violence and human trafficking. However, this regulatory approach has not adequately addressed the negative consequences for sex workers themselves. In order to determine whether the European Convention on Human Rights provides protection for sex workers in this context, this paper examines the contrasting feminist perspectives influencing the debate, the legal framework at the national, regional, and international levels, and case law. The case pending in Strasbourg, “M.A. and Others v. France” is analysed in the light of the potential protection of the right to life, the prohibition of degrading treatment, and the right to respect for private life.

Author : Ronald Weitzer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814794630

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Legalizing Prostitution by Ronald Weitzer Pdf

While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of the ascendancy of interest groups committed to the total abolition of the sex industry. At the same time, however, several other nations have recently decriminalized prostitution. Legalizing Prostitution maps out the current terrain. Using America as a backdrop, Weitzer draws on extensive field research in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany to illustrate alternatives to American-style criminalization of sex workers. These cases are then used to develop a roster of “best practices” that can serve as a model for other nations considering legalization. Legalizing Prostitution provides a theoretically grounded comparative analysis of political dynamics, policy outcomes, and red-light landscapes in nations where prostitution has been legalized and regulated by the government, presenting a rich and novel portrait of the multifaceted world of legal sex for sale.

Author : Gangoli, Geetanjali,Westmarland, Nicole
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781861346728

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International Approaches to Prostitution by Gangoli, Geetanjali,Westmarland, Nicole Pdf

Providing a detailed international comparison of the laws, policies and interventions relating to prostitution in eight countries across Europe and Asia, this title includes case studies that are brought to life by giving voice to the experiences of prostitutes themselves.

Author : Lilian Mathieu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004541535

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Prostitutes and Their Rescuers by Lilian Mathieu Pdf

Few sociological subjects excite so much passion – and fantasies – as prostitution. Relying on a thirty year-long study of the French case, Lilian Mathieu offers an objective and comprehensive account of prostitution realities, first by analyzing the sex market as a social world with its own rules, hierarchies, and vulnerabilities, but also by stressing how prostitutes’ practice and living conditions are framed and shaped by moral campaigns, public controversies, and state policies. By doing so, the book offers a new understanding of how the “deviant” and “normal” worlds interact and transform sexual norms. Prostitutes and Their Rescuers. Sociological dynamics and public controversies in French prostitution is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Author : Sharron FitzGerald,Jane Freedman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000652680

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Gender, Equality and Social Justice by Sharron FitzGerald,Jane Freedman Pdf

This book addresses a gap in both contemporary theorising and empirical analysis of the European Union’s (EU) law and policy frameworks on migration, sex work and anti trafficking. Drawing on the authors’ previous research on these policies and with their practical experience of engaging with various EU institutions in law and policy-making fora around gender, equality and justice, the work examines the processes involved in constructing and enacting policy frameworks and legal interventions on these issues, within a feminist analytical framework. The authors map how EU agenda-setting operates, and detail the roles that various EU institutions, external groups and actors, including non-governmental organisations, play in promoting or blocking policy on these three issues. The book draws on feminist theorising on gender, policy-making and social justice to develop a general theoretical framework to help us understand how and why a consensus has seemingly been achieved at EU level on what constitutes gender equality in these three policy areas. The book presents a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy makers in Law, Migration, EU policy making and Gender Studies.

Author : Sheila Shaver
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785367168

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Handbook on Gender and Social Policy by Sheila Shaver Pdf

Providing a state of the art overview, this comprehensive Handbook is an essential introduction to the subject of Gender and Social Policy. Bringing together original contributions and research from leading researchers it covers the theoretical perspectives of the field, the central policy terrain of gender inequalities of income, employment and care, and family policy. Examining gender and social policy at both the regional and national level, the Handbook is an excellent resource for advanced students and scholars of sociology, political science, women’s studies, policy studies as well as practitioners seeking to understand how gender shapes the contours of social policy and politics.

Author : Zowie Davy,Ana Cristina Santos,Chiara Bertone,Ryan Thoreson,Saskia E. Wieringa
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529721942

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The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities by Zowie Davy,Ana Cristina Santos,Chiara Bertone,Ryan Thoreson,Saskia E. Wieringa Pdf

This two-volume Handbook provides a major thematic overview of global sexualities, spanning each of the continents, and its study, which is both reflective and prospective, and includes traditional approaches and emerging themes. The Handbook offers a robust theoretical underpinning and critical outlook on current global, glocal, and ‘new’ sexualities and practices, whilst offering an extensive reflection on current challenges and future directions of the field. The broad coverage of topics engages with a range of theories, and maintains a multi-disciplinary framework. PART ONE: Understanding Sexuality: Epistemologies/Conceptual and Methodological Challenges PART TWO: Enforcing and Challenging Sexual Norms PART THREE: Interrogating/Undoing Sexual Categories PART FOUR: Enhancement Practices and Sexual Markets/Industries PART FIVE: Sexual Rights and Citizenship (And the Governance of Sexuality) PART SIX: Sexuality and Social Movements PART SEVEN: Language and Cultural Representation