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

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 le...

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Autores: Lanau, Alba, Matolcsi, Andrea
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Sex work
Mapping
Service planning
Prostitution policy
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spelling Prostitution and sex work, who counts? Mapping local data to inform policy and service provisionLanau, AlbaMatolcsi, AndreaSex workMappingService planningProstitution policyData 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.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.Cambridge University Press202420242024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/60088http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746422000136reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésSocial Policy and Society. 2024 Jan;23(1):71-85info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/801370© 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.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/600882026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Prostitution and sex work, who counts? Mapping local data to inform policy and service provision
spellingShingle Prostitution and sex work, who counts? Mapping local data to inform policy and service provision
Lanau, Alba
Sex work
Mapping
Service planning
Prostitution policy
title_short Prostitution and sex work, who counts? Mapping local data to inform policy and service provision
title_full Prostitution and sex work, who counts? Mapping local data to inform policy and service provision
title_fullStr Prostitution and sex work, who counts? Mapping local data to inform policy and service provision
title_full_unstemmed Prostitution and sex work, who counts? Mapping local data to inform policy and service provision
title_sort Prostitution and sex work, who counts? Mapping local data to inform policy and service provision
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Lanau, Alba
Matolcsi, Andrea
author Lanau, Alba
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Matolcsi, Andrea
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Sex work
Mapping
Service planning
Prostitution policy
topic Sex work
Mapping
Service planning
Prostitution policy
description 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.
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