Policing the Sex Industry - Protection, Paternalism and Politics

List of contents

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: policing the sex industry: tackling exploitation, facilitating safety? Teela Sanders and Mary Laing
Part 1: Protection through policing: plurality and pragmatism
Chapter 1: Policing sex work in the UK: a patchwork approach. Alex Feis-Bryce
Chapter 2: Trans sex workers in the UK: security, services and safety Mary Laing, Del Campbell, Matthew Jones and Angelika Strohmayer
Chapter 3: Beyond hate: policing sex work, protection and hate crime Rosie Campbell
Chapter 4: Decriminalisation, policing and sex work in New Zealand Lynzi Armstrong
Chapter 5: ‘Not in our name’: findings from Wales supporting the decriminalisation of sex work Tracey Sagar and Debbie Jones
Part 2 Policing Operations, enforcement and austerity
Chapter 6: Policing the absence of the victim: an ethnography of raids in sex trafficking operations Julia Leser
Chapter 7: Trafficking, pimping, sex work and the police: stree prostitutes' perceptions in Las Vegas Andrew L. Spivak
Chapter 8: The condom as evidence and the condom as a crowbar Synnøve Jahnsen
Chapter 9: Gentrification and the criminalization of sex work: exploring the sanitization of sex work in Kings Cross with the use of ASBOs and CBOs Lucy Neville and Erin Sanders-McDonagh

Summary

Unpicking the relationship between police practice and commercial sex, this book explores key issues including: trafficking, decriminalisation, localised impacts of punitive policing approaches, uneven policing approaches, hate-crime approaches and impact of policing on trans-sex workers.

Product details

• Authors: Teela (University of Leicester Sanders, Teela Laing Sanders
• Assisted by: Mary Laing (Editor), Laing Mary (Editor), Teela Sanders (Editor), Sanders Teela (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367375140
• ISBN: 978-0-367-37514-0
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale; Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology