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Volume 6, Issue 1
1 February 2007
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Community Safety Journal
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Review Article| February 01 2007

Regulating prostitution: Different problems, different solutions, same old story

Jo Phoenix
Jo Phoenix
University of Bath
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2977-7097
Print ISSN: 1477-5883
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2007
Community Safety Journal (2007) 6 (1): 7–10.
https://doi.org/10.1108/17578043200700002

This article looks at three main models of intervention that have informed recent policy and practice with people involved in the sex trade. It reveals the inherent contradictions within attempts to both help and punish workers in the existing prostitution strategy.

Keywords: Sex workers, Criminalisation, Prostitution, Vulnerability, Reform
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