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Vulnerability and involvement in drug use and sex work 56 These are harm reduction interventions aimed at: – reducing drug consumption amongst sex workers and their clients; – promoting sexual safety via safer sex with commercial partners; – ensuring safer sex practices are not undermined by disinhibiting drug effects or by reduced capacity for physical control; and – ensuring personal physical safety is not undermined by disinhibiting drug effects or by reduced capacity for physical control. Targeting the most vulnerable This study recommends the following courses of action. ● S e rvices acknowledge adult sex worker choice and remind policy makers and serv i c e p roviders that their participants did not see sex work as a problem in its own right. ● Adults choosing to do sex work are permitted the same opportunities to work safely and according to the same employment laws as other workers. ● A pragmatic policy position is taken that recognises that sex work is unlikely to be eradicated in the near future. Such a policy should therefore focus on reducing the harms, which have become associated with sex work. ● Services work jointly to ensure the early identification of both vulnerable young people and trafficked women attempting to sell sex indoors. This would be more achievable if indoor sex premises were licensed, regulated and well-managed. These policies are more achievable than eradicating sex work and more socially responsible than allowing abuses to flourish in this unregulated business. Preventing children being abused through prostitution To prevent children being abused through prostitution, this study recommends the following course of action. ● S e rvices identify children at risk for involvement in prostitution. Almost all of the most vulnerable children are already in contact with services. More could be done via the care system and the criminal justice system to prevent their involvement at an early age. Vulnerable children need support to ensure they a re securely housed, socially included and have access to services on the basis of need.
● Law enforcement agencies pursue and prosecute the child abusers who pay to have sex with children. ● Police resources should be diverted from prosecuting adults for sex work related offences towards pursuing those seeking paid sex with children. ● Potential abusers seeking child prostitutes might be targeted in an inform a t i o n campaign reminding them that until the age of eighteen, under S a f e g u a r d i n g Children Involved in Prostitution (Dept. of Health, 2000) young people involved in prostitution are to be treated as victims of abuse. ● Agencies intending to identify young people at risk of entering prostitution should follow the working practices of Nottinghamshire anti-vice squad and N o t t i n g h a m s h i re Social services. These agencies work in partnership with voluntary agencies in the city to identify vulnerable young people who may be at risk of entering prostitution. ● Future research should investigate the feasibility of a licensing system for sex work premises. These are harm reduction interventions aimed at: ● preventing children becoming involved in prostitution; ● massively reducing a currently unregulated, criminogenic industry ’s potential to exploit children, illegal and trafficked migrants and individuals who are dependent on drugs; ● breaking connections between drug use and sex work occasioned by their shared geographic and illicit market areas; ● increasing the appeal of indoor sex work premises for both adult sex workers and their clients and thereby reducing the relative appeal of outdoor sex markets; thus ● reducing outdoor sex markets with the following potential benefits: – reduced opportunities for offenders who rely on outdoor sex markets – child abusers and drug dealers; – reduced opportunities for violence; – improved opportunities to safeguard health and safety in commercial sex; and – reduced public nuisance and related disputes associated with outdoor sex markets. Summary of conclusions and recommendations 57
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Home Office Research Study 268 Vuln
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Foreword This re p o rt is one of f
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Contents Foreword i Acknowledgement
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Executive summary Recent academic,
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The two most important factors for
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1 Introduction Youth prostitution p
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Particularly strong correlates of y
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Page 47 and 48: 5 ‘Trapping’ and ‘exiting’
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Page 57 and 58: 6 Services Access to information an
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Page 77 and 78: Appendix C Consent form The Centre
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Page 81 and 82: Q052 Have you had a drug problem or
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Page 85 and 86: Q164 (show prompt card 5) How often
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Page 89 and 90: References Adams, N., Cart e r, C.,
Page 91 and 92: Ebaugh, H.R.F. (1988). Becoming an
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Page 95 and 96: Widom, C.S. and Ames, M.A. (1994).
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