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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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1 results foundAuthor: Eaves For Women Title: "i'm no criminal": Examining the inpact of prostitution-specific criminal records on women seeking to exit prostitution Summary: The research outlines the legal and policy context in the UK surrounding prostitution. It also reviews relevant literature relating to the impact of criminal justice measures, and specifically criminal records, on women in, and exiting, prostitution. This research uses the term "women involved in prostitution", as women are the majority (though not the totality) of those selling or being sold for sex. The research aims were to explore: - The ways in which convictions and different outcomes for prostitution-related offences impact on women involved in prostitution - How a prostitution-related criminal record can act as a barrier to exiting specifically with - regard to education, training and employment - How this barrier may be linked to, and interact with, other barriers exiting women face - The more long-term ramifications for women, including post-exit, of prostitution-specific criminal records. The research was informed by a feminist approach. It used a mixed method approach. This involved a secondary analysis of interviews with 56 women with prostitution-specific criminal records undertaken in the original research from which this study arose. It also included a further fifteen new semi-structured interviews with women with prostitution-specific criminal records and 10 with stakeholders who have working knowledge and experience of prostitution and the criminal justice system. The findings examine both women's and stakeholders' views about existing measures used for prostitution in the criminal justice system - notably fines, antisocial behaviour orders, custodial sentences and community based alternatives. The research reflects the findings of other research in identifying that all of these measures can have harmful and discriminatory effects on women, entrenching them further in both the criminal justice system and in prostitution. While some of the community-based alternatives are intended to be less punitive and may be less detrimental to women, they are by no means harm-free and also are riven with inherent contradictions, inconsistencies and disparities. The findings also add to an existing body of research that highlights the lack of any strategy, vision or direction on prostitution policy and the way in which this results in inconsistent, arbitrary and contradictory policy and practice. This inconsistency acts to the great detriment and confusion of women involved in prostitution, the services that work with them, and the wider public. The findings then look in some detail at the impact of prostitution-specific criminal records on women's ability to take up education, training and employment which may enable them to exit prostitution, and build and sustain a new life. This section highlights the fact that the disclosure and barring service regulations result in prostitution-specific records being disclosed in most cases for women even years after they have exited. As one woman says: "It's holding me up basically in all areas of my life." Details: London: nia, 2017. 112p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 29, 2017 at: http://www.niaendingviolence.org.uk/perch/resources/im-no-criminal-final-report.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.niaendingviolence.org.uk/perch/resources/im-no-criminal-final-report.pdf Shelf Number: 146601 Keywords: Criminal Records Prostitutes Prostitution Prostitution PolicySex Workers |