Designing prostitution policy : intention and reality in regulating the sex trade / Hendrik Wagenaar, Helga Amesberger and Sietske Altink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagenaar, H., author.

Amesberger, Helga, author.

Altink, Sietske, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--Government policy.

Prostitution.

Prostitution--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK Policy Press 2017

Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Policy Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Most discussions about approaches to regulating prostitution occur at the national level-battles, for example, between prohibition and legalization. In reality, however, the impact of prostitution is felt most keenly at the local level, and it is local measures that can have the greatest effect. This book explores various approaches to regulating prostitution and other sex work at the local level, analyzing their aims and outcomes and offering guidance on designing effective regulations through available policy instruments.

Contents:

Introduction

Dora's story

The primacy of policy in prostitution

The goals of the book

A reader's guide to the book

Challenges of prostitution policy

The stigma of prostitution and the paradox of control

Prostitution politics as morality politics

Paradoxes of immigration

Obstacles to obtaining reliable numbers about prostitution and sex workers

The ineluctable importance of the local in prostitution policy

Analysing prostitution policy

The local governance of prostitution: regulatory drift and implementation capture

Policy implementation as policy formulation with different means

Policy design and policy instruments

Local policymaking in the Netherlands

Local policymaking in Vienna

Conclusion: policy implementation, morality politics and the corrosive effects of discourse

The national governance of prostitution: political rationality and the politics of discourse

Introduction: policy subsystems and policy streams

National policy in the Netherlands

National policy in Austria

Conclusion: Designing prostitution policy

Understanding the policy field: migration, prostitution, trafficking and exploitation

Introduction: prostitution as a complex policy field

Migration, prostitution and coercion

How immigration and labour law shape the 'modern slavery' problem

Prostitution and exploitation

Prostitution, trafficking and exploitation: an alternative framework

Prostitution policy beyond trafficking: collaborative governance in prostitution

The challenges of prostitution policy revisited: harnessing a complex policy field Introducing collaborative rationality in prostitution governance

Sex worker advocacy and the state

Governance capacity and collaborative governance

Is collaborative governance in prostitution policy possible?

Summary and conclusion.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print record, CIP data from the publisher, and e-publication e-publication, viewed on March 4, 2021.

Other Format:

Print version (hardback):

ISBN:

9781447324256

1447324250

9781447335191

1447335198

9781447324263

1447324269

OCLC:

978938877

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access