Designing Prostitution Policy

Intention and Reality in Regulating the Sex Trade

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ID23519306
AuthorsHendrik Wagenaar (0000-0001-7275-6761), Helga Amesberger, Sietske Altink
Year2017
Publication date2017-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueDesigning Prostitution Policy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/j.ctt1wf4c8r
OpenAlexW4236442118
Open LibraryOL46559626M
ISBN9781447324263
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited73

Prostitution is a complex, contested, sensitive and fast-moving field, and this is a large and comprehensive book.It could not have been written without the generous support of a number of people.We thank Joyce Outshoorn and the anonymous reviewer of Policy Press for their extensive and constructive comments on the manuscript.They urged us to restructure the design of the book and to rethink some of our arguments.Without them the message of the book would have been considerably less focused.Agata Dziuban and Licia Brussa were kind enough to read on short notice Chapter Five, the chapter on trafficking, immigration and exploitation.This is an exceedingly difficult topic and their extensive knowledge and experience in this area prevented us from many errors and misjudgements in our discussion of these topics.As always whatever errors remain in the book are ours.The research that forms the basis for this book would not have been possible without the generous participation and support of a large number of people.First, the members of the consortium group, officials from the cities of Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague, and later from the Women's Department of the City of Vienna (in particular Marion Gebhard and Alina Zachar), who were entrusted with the design and implementation of prostitution policy in their cities, and spent countless hours throughout the course of the research with the research team discussing research questions, research design, data, the interpretation of data, and the content of the various reports we produced.They were generous in providing us with insights into the everyday details of their practice, and they might like to hear that we learned a lot about the craft of policymaking in prostitution from them.We know that they will disagree with many of our conclusions in this book, but that does not detract from the fact that they were invaluable for the realisation of the research.We also need to thank Jos Koffijberg and Lydia Sterrenberg, who were the Platform 31 officers assigned to our project (Platform 31 calls itself a knowledge and network organisation in the field of urban policy.It brings together government, social organisations and businesses in addressing urban problems).Their professionalism and enthusiasm helped us sustain the project through sometimes rocky political moments.Wim Hafkamp, the then director of Platform 31, has been unwavering in his support for the project.Sylvia Bokelman conducted interviews, engaged in ethnographic observation, kept a diary and generously shared her insights and experience of the sex trade with us.Throughout the research Susanne Dodillet and Petra vi Designing prostitution policy Östergren were our expert guides through the mirror palace of Swedish prostitution policy.Hendrik Wagenaar is exceedingly grateful to Catherine Healy and Calum Bennacchie of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective who on two occasions organised a series of meetings and interviews with key actors in New Zealand prostitution policy.He thanks them not only for their help in organising his field work and for the way they welcomed him in the sex worker advocacy community, but above all for the friendship they offered him and his wife.Hendrik is also deeply grateful to Mariska Majoor, erstwhile chair of the Dutch sex worker advocacy organisation PROUD, who, over many hours of coffee and homemade soup at the Prostitution Information Centre in Amsterdam, acted as an informal

Criminology · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Sex work and related issues · Ethical issues: prostitution & sex industry · Government policy · Human trafficking · Prostitution

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