Violence against women (VAW) is only beginning to be recognized as a major societal problem within and across Asia …. This is evidenced by the high level of self-reporting by men and women of sexual violence and domestic violence in recent … UN surveys; the extremely low conviction rates for these forms of violence; the slow, partial or non-adoption of anti …

to which buyers only are prosecuted. We focus on various measures of violence, distinguishing between known and unknown … perpetrator, indoor and outdoor crimes, and on health outcomes such as hospitalizations. This allows us to assess whether violence … occurs within the prostitution market, or outside of it, namely as domestic violence. The empirical analysis shows an …