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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014
T2 - implications for sex workers and their clients
AU - Kingston, Sarah
AU - Thomas, Terry
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Policing and Society on 07/08/2015, available online:http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10439463.2015.1072181
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 introduced new powers to deal with behaviour deemed to be ‘anti-social’. In this paper we consider how the new law could be used against sex workers and their clients and the impact this may have. Although the new powers were not intentionally designed to respond to prostitution, we suggest that they will be utilised to tackle it. We argue that the law will be used inconsistently in a way which will go directly against policy which seeks to ‘tackle demand’ and take a less punitive approach to dealing with sex workers. Despite a policy shift to see sex workers more as victims and less as offenders, we draw on existing evidence to demonstrate that the new anti-social behaviour order law will be utilised to exclude street sex workers from public spaces. We claim that a degree of ‘policy re-fraction’ will occur when the new laws are implemented by practitioners.
AB - The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 introduced new powers to deal with behaviour deemed to be ‘anti-social’. In this paper we consider how the new law could be used against sex workers and their clients and the impact this may have. Although the new powers were not intentionally designed to respond to prostitution, we suggest that they will be utilised to tackle it. We argue that the law will be used inconsistently in a way which will go directly against policy which seeks to ‘tackle demand’ and take a less punitive approach to dealing with sex workers. Despite a policy shift to see sex workers more as victims and less as offenders, we draw on existing evidence to demonstrate that the new anti-social behaviour order law will be utilised to exclude street sex workers from public spaces. We claim that a degree of ‘policy re-fraction’ will occur when the new laws are implemented by practitioners.
KW - Sex work
KW - prostitution
KW - anti-social behaviour order
KW - ASBOs
KW - the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014
U2 - 10.1080/10439463.2015.1072181
DO - 10.1080/10439463.2015.1072181
M3 - Journal article
VL - 27
SP - 465
EP - 479
JO - Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy
JF - Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy
SN - 1043-9463
IS - 5
ER -