Safer Communities: Volume 6 Issue 1

Editorial

Jenny Pearce, Jo Phoenix

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

Jo Phoenix

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…

What's anti‐social about sex work? The changing representation of prostitution's incivility

Jane Scoular, Jane Pitcher, Rosie Campbell, Phil Hubbard, Maggie O'Neill

This article considers the likely success of recent reforms of prostitution policy by reflecting on a recent Joseph Rowntree Foundation‐funded study that examined the experiences…

The government's new prostitution strategy: A cheap fix for drug‐using sex workers?

Margaret Melrose

This article considers the recommendations to the government's public consultation exercise for drug‐using sex workers (Home Office, 2004). It argues that the ‘problem’ of drug…

A co‐ordinated prostitution strategy and response to Paying the price — but what about the men?

Justin Gaffney

The recently published Home Office strategy document, A co‐ordinated prostitution strategy and a summary of responses to Paying the price (Home Office, 2006), focuses on the role…

No room for a regulated market? The implications of the co‐ordinated prostitution strategy for the indoor sex industries

Teela Sanders

In the UK the indoor sexual marketplace of brothels, saunas and massage parlours has historically been left to manage itself, with limited regulation from policing agencies. This…

Community safety, rights and recognition: Towards a co‐ordinated prostitution strategy?

Maggie O'Neill

This article argues that there are two main barriers preventing imagining and actioning an inclusive, holistic strategy for prostitution reform in the UK. It identifies five key…