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Commissions, Committees and Reports
Royal
Commission upon the Administration and Operation of the Contagious Diseases
Acts 1871
Evidence
of John Stuart Mill (pdf)[1]
Street Offences Committee
(Macmillan) 1927-8
Terms of Reference
'To enquire into the law and practice regarding offences against the
criminal law in connection with prostitution and solicitation for immoral
purposes in streets and public places and other offences against decency and
good order, and to report what changes, if any, are in their opinion
desirable.'
Sir John Wolfenden (1906-85)
Vagrancy and Street
Offences Working Party 1971-6[2]
McIntosh Vagrancy and street offences Br J Crim 1975 (abstract)
Leigh:
Reports of Committees - Vagrancy and Law Reform. Mod Law Rev 1977 (abstract)
Criminal Law Revision Committee
1975-86
Working
paper on offences relating to prostitution and allied offences 1982
E McLeod: A fresh approach? A
critique of the working paper on offences relating to prostitution. J
Law Soc 1983
Sixteenth report: Prostitution in
the Street 1984
Glazebrook: Sexist Sex Law CLJ 1985 (pdf)
Seventeenth
report: Prostitution Off-street
Activities 1985
Consultation: New
measures to control prostitute's cards in phone boxes. 1999
Review 1998-2003
Helen Self: History repeating itself. 2004 (pdf)
Prostitution Strategy
Consultation 2004[3]
Tackling street
prostitution: Towards an holistic approach 2004 (pdf)
Paying the Price: A
consultation on prostitution 2004 (pdf)
Responses
Sophie Day, Helen Ward,
University of London and EUROPAP
British Association for
Sexual Health and HIV (pdf)
Teela Sanders: Blinded by
morality? Capital and Class Summer 2005 86:9 (pdf)
Soothill and Sanders: Calling the tune? J For Psych Psychol 2004 (pdf)
English Collective of
Prostitutes (pdf)
The Christian Institute
(Word)
Lynne Jones MP (Lab. Birmingham Selly Oak)
Michael Sieff Foundation (Word)
London Councils (Proposed: never submitted)
A Coordinated
Prostitution Strategy 2006 (pdf)
Government
says no to managed zones 2006
Anti Social Behaviour Orders 2006
Respect: Tackling antisocial behaviour 2007
2007
Kerb Crawling Campaign
May 2007
Minister for Women
(Harman) seeks ban on advertising. BBC Oct 29
Harman to seek ban on
purchase. BBC Dec 20
Responses to Strategy
Belinda Brooks-Gordon: Government strategy on sex
work - A comedy of errors 2006 (Word)
Boynton and Cusick: Sex workers to pay the
price BMJ 2006
Prostitution Shake-up: One sex worker's view BMJ 2006
Sanders: Debating prostitution Socialist Worker
January 2006
Melrose: A comment on the government's prostitution
policy. Com Safe J 2006 (pdf)
Chris Ashford: Sex work in cyberspace - who pays
the price? Inf Com Tech Law 2008 (abstract)
Ashford: Policing cyber prostitution: A UK
perspective (Law and Society Assoc 2008) (abstract)
Community Safety Journal (Special Issue) Feb 2007
Editorial: Pearce and
Phoenix (pdf)
Contents/Phoenix:
Regulating prostitution: Same old story (pdf)
Scoular et al: What's
anti-social about sex work? (pdf)
Sanders:
No room for a regulated market? (Word)
O'Neill: Towards a
coordinated prostitution strategy? (Word)
Laite: The women who still walk the streets. The
Politician 2007
Women’s Institute
Women's Institute favours regulation. Telegraph
Nov 6 2007
WI Challenges Government
moves to further criminalise sex work. IDS Nov 8
Catholic Bishop supports
initiative. Reuters Nov 8
Jean Johnson's fight
Sunday Times February 22 2009
Press
Release January 14: Tackling demand
Westminster
Briefing: Still Paying the Price April 30 2008 (Power Point)
To make prostitute's
customers say 'no'. Public Technology May 6
Responses
Home Office Consultation September 26 2008
(and Outsider's Response)
Other responses
Release: Drugs, The Law & Human Rights
Comment
Mark Cowling: Is Smith
right on prostitution? New Statesman November 2008
Review of women with
particular vulnerabilties in the justice system (Corston) 2008
Report
Tackling the Demand for prostitution. November 2008 (pdf)
Criminal Justice
and Immigration Bill 2007-8[4]
Media
Prostitutes face jail. Observer August 12 2007
Strategy for the
streets. Magistrate
September 2007 (pdf)
Our sex lives are our own business. Observer Sept
16
ECP:
Driven on to the streets. New Statesman Oct 31 2007
Government launches new review. Guardian Nov 30
Sex for sale: The truth about prostitution in
Britain. Independent Nov 26 2008
Safety First: Clause 72. October 2007
Lord Faulkner
addressing Safety First at House of Commons, January 16 2008
British Psychological Society November 2 (pdf)
NAPO:
National Association of Probation Officers. January 2008
Canadian response February 2008 (Word)
Supplement re
Sexual Offences Act 1956
Policing and
Crime Bill 2008-9[5]
Responses
Julia Laite: A bill on
prostitution that deserves the red light. Parliamentary Brief, January 2009
English Collective of Prostitutes January 2009
Rights of Women. January 2009 (pdf)
Joint Select Committee on Human Rights April 2009
Rights of Women (Amendments to Clause 13) May 2009
(pdf)
Eaves - OBJECT- Rights of Women (pdf)
Media
Alan White: Punitive laws will not help sex workers. Times January 19
2009
Nathalie Rothschild: Who says sex workers want to
be ‘saved’? Guardian March 13 2009
Police fear new law will not work. Daily Mail
April 6 2009
This House would decriminalise Prostitution
Against: Janice Shaw
Crouse (Concerned Women for America)
Home Office Research
May, Harocopos,
Hough: ‘For Love or Money’ Pimps and the management of sex work.
2000 (pdf)
Campbell S. A review of anti-social behaviour orders. Home Office Research Series 236,
2002
Hester and Westmarland: Tackling street prostitution – towards a
holistic approach. 2004 (pdf)
Guidances
Safeguarding children involved in prostitution 2000
Crown Prosecution Service
Legal Guidance: Prostitution and Offences against
Public Morals
Last
updated: March 2, 2011
Dr Michael
Goodyear,
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