Showing 1 - 10 of 859
This paper investigates empirically whether prostitution reduces sex crimes. Theoretical predictions suggest two … contradicting effects: substituting or complementing. By using survey data of sex offenders in Korea, I find that prostitution … sex crimes. These results indicate that prostitution intensifies one's propensities for more violent sexual behaviors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287082
This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime …. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under … street prostitution zone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30% to 40% in the first two years. For cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528852
Liberal prostitution policy aims at improving labour conditions for prostitutes and protecting victims of forced … prostitution. Its policy orientation predicts that the policy choice of liberalizing prostitution is positively associated with … empirically whether the legalization of prostitution improves protection policy for victims, as it is presumed. The results of my …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126847
This paper investigates the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. According to economic theory …, there are two opposing effects of unknown magnitude. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution leads to an expansion of … the prostitution market, increasing human trafficking, while the substitution effect reduces demand for trafficked women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349164
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012000360
We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … down on prostitution with the Prostitution (Public Places) Scotland Act 2007 and the Policing and Crime Act of 2009 in … prostitution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022726
This paper studies the incidence, determinants and pricing of unprotected oral sex in the London sex services market. The analysis is based upon matched sex worker-client panel data, which were collected from "field reports" on PunterNet.com website over the 1999-2009 time period. We find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814687
in the era before railways. Here we use detailed data for Paris on women arrested for prostitution in the 1760s, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011866117
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153097
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367745