Prostitution and sex work, who counts? Mapping local data to inform policy and service provision

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• dc.contributor.author Lanau, Alba
• dc.contributor.author Matolcsi, Andrea
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-09T11:23:32Z
• dc.date.available 2024-05-09T11:23:32Z
• dc.date.issued 2024
• dc.description.abstract Data on the sex industry is notably hard to obtain. Existing evidence points towards an increase in the number of people selling sex, particularly through the online industry. The growing and increasingly diverse population poses challenges to service provision, as new groups are less visible and less likely to be in contact with specialist services. Simultaneously, there are increased calls for policies regulating the sex industry to be grounded in evidence. Relying on systematic literature and data reviews, this article provides a synthesis of the evidence on the prevalence of sex work and prostitution in England and Wales. It shows that no existing source allows producing reliable estimates of the size and characteristics of sex markets. As a result, policy is informed by partial pictures. The article proposes local mapping, an underused approach, to inform both policy development and service provision.
• dc.description.sponsorship The research that inspired this article was funded by the UK Home Office and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales. This paper has also received funding from the postdoctoral fellowship programme Beatriu de Pinós, funded by the Secretary of Universities and Research (Government of Catalonia) and by the H2020 programme Marie Sklodovska-Curie grant agreement nº 801370.
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• dc.identifier.citation Lanau L, Matolcsi A. Prostitution and sex work, who counts? Mapping local data to inform policy and service provision. Soc Policy Soc. 2024 Jan;23(1):71-85. DOI: 10.1017/S1474746422000136
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746422000136
• dc.identifier.issn 1474-7464
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60088
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Social Policy and Society. 2024 Jan;23(1):71-85
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/801370
• dc.rights © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. This article has been published in a revised form in Social Policy and Society [http://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746422000136]. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licence. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed.
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• dc.subject.keyword Sex work
• dc.subject.keyword Mapping
• dc.subject.keyword Service planning
• dc.subject.keyword Prostitution policy
• dc.title Prostitution and sex work, who counts? Mapping local data to inform policy and service provision
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