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Anti-Social Powers and the Regulation of Street Sex Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2009

Tracey Sagar
Tracey Sagar*
Affiliation:
Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Swansea University E-mail: T.Sagar@swansea.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article focuses on the use of anti-social behavior powers in relation to a group of vulnerable women – street sex workers. It illustrates how the use of legal tools – anti-social behavior orders and public nuisance injunctions – against sex workers has been both misplaced and ineffective. The article also considers the use of anti-social powers in light of the government's leaning towards the coercive (or some might argue the compulsory) rehabilitation of sex workers. In doing so, it draws attention to the lack of research on the impact of both exclusion orders and rehabilitation orders for sex workers. Whilst it is important to fill this knowledge gap, it is argued that future investigations in this area would benefit from social network research approaches.

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Themed section on Disciplining Difference
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 101 - 109
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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