Sex as Crime?

This book brings together chapters by academics, researchers and practitioners to analyse how crimes such as sex work, domestic violence and rape and sexual assault have risen up the Government agenda in recent years. For example, the 'Paying the Price' consultation exercise on sex work in 2004, and recent legislation around sex crimes, including the Sex Offences Act (2003). This is a multi-disciplinary, social scientific, pro-feminist collection, which draws upon practice, empirical research, documentary analysis and overviews of research in the areas of sex work and sexual violence. Within Sex as Crime there are two distinct sub-sections: 'Sex for Sale' and 'Sex as Violence', but the broader and overriding link of sex as crime remains a paramount theme that spans the collection. Chapters include discussions of the impact of new regulations on street sex workers, and of street sex work on community residents, the use of the internet by men who pay for sex and men who sell it, sexual violence and identity, sex crimes against children and protecting children online and working with sex offenders. Other chapters explore reasons for such offending behaviour.

Gayle Letherby, Kate Williams, Philip Birch, Maureen E Cain

Introduction: Problematising Sex: Introducing Sex as Crime Part 1: Sex for Sale Introduction: Sex for Sale 1. Reinventing the Wheel: Contemporary Contours of Prostitution Regulation 2. What's Criminal about Female Indoor Sex Work?3. Intimacy, Pleasure and the Men who Pay for Sex 4. Sex, Violence and Work: Transgressing Binaries and the Vital Role of Services to Sex Workers in Public Policy Reform 5. The Bar Dancer and the Trafficked Migrant: Globalisation and Subaltern Existence 6. 'Getting Paid for Sex is my Kick': A Qualitative Study of Male Sex Workers 7. Cosmopolitanism and Trafficking of Human Beings for Forced Labour 8. The Sexual Intentions of Male Sex Workers: An International Study of Escorts Who Advertise on the Web 9. From the Oblivious to the Vigilante: The Views, Experiences and Responses of Residents Living in Areas of Street Sex Work Part 2: Sex as Violence Introduction: Sex as Violence 10. Why do 'Young People' go Missing in 'Child Prostitution' Reform?11. Yes Minister, 'Sex Violence Policy has Failed': It's Time for Sex, Violence and Crime in a Postmodern Frame 12. War and Sex Crime 13. Contradictions and Paradoxes: International Patterns of, and Responses to, Reported Rape Cases 14. Attachment Styles, Emotional Loneliness and Sexual Offending 15. Understanding Women who Commit Sex Offences 16. Sexual Offenders and Public Protection in an Uncertain Age 17. Protecting Children Online: Towards a Safer Internet 18. The 'Paedophile-in-the-community' Protests: Press Reporting and Public Responses