There is a notable shift toward more repression and criminalization in sex work policies, in
Europe and elsewhere. So-called neo-abolitionism reduces sex work to trafficking, with …

Prostitution, payment for the exchange of sexual services, is deemed a major social problem
in most countries around the world today, with little to no consensus on how to address it. In …

This contribution examines how feminist economists have conceptualized sex work and
trafficking through the lens of agency and stigma. The ongoing debate about legalization …

In their Target Article “The Prostitution Problem”: Claims, Evidence, and Policy Outcomes,
Benoit, Smith, Jansson, Healey, and Magnuson (2018) give an excellent account of two …

Results on whether party ideology influences the regulation of morally sensitive issues
remain inconclusive. This is partly due to insufficient theoretical specifications of the link …

The local regulation of prostitution in Germany is a contested area of urban politics. In this
issue area, morality claims intersect with the material interests of home-and landowners and …

Prostitution is a standard case of morality politics (MP), defined as a particular type of politics
that engages issues closely related to religious and/or moral values, giving way to strong …

In recent years, many European countries, including Italy, have witnessed an increasing
penalisation of uncivil (anti-social or nuisance) behaviour at the local level (Peršak, 2017b …

The use of regulation of sex work is undergoing sweeping changes across Europe and
client criminalization is becoming very widespread, with conflicting claims about the …

Abstract “Independent” sex work outside red light areas in big cities in developing countries
is an understudied phenomenon. Through a survey of independent sex workers in Delhi …