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Criminalising the Purchase of Sex - Lessons from Sweden (Paperback)
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Criminalising the Purchase of Sex - Lessons from Sweden (Paperback)
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In an attempt to abolish prostitution, Sweden criminalised the
purchase of sex in 1999, while simultaneously decriminalising its
sale. In so doing, it set itself apart from other European states,
promoting itself as the pioneer of a radical approach to
prostitution. What has come to be referred to as 'the Swedish
model' has been enormously influential, and has since been adopted
and proposed by other countries. This book establishes the outcomes
of this law - and the law's justifying narratives - for the
dynamics of Swedish sex work, and upon the lives of sex workers.
Drawing on recent fieldwork undertaken in Sweden over several
years, including qualitative interviewing and participant
observation, Jay Levy argues that far from being a law to be
emulated, the Swedish model has had many detrimental impacts, and
has failed to demonstrably decrease levels of prostitution.
Criminalising the Purchase of Sex: Lessons from Sweden utilises a
wealth of respondent testimony and secondary research to redress
the current lack of primary academic research and to contribute to
academic discussion on this politically-charged and internationally
relevant topic. This original and timely work will be of interest
to sex worker rights organisations, policy makers and politicians,
as well as researchers, academics and students across a number of
related disciplines, including law, sociology, criminology, human
geography and gender studies.
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