Sex work, hate crime and the criminal law
Sanders, Teela and Scoular, Jane and Campbell, Rosie (2022) Sex work, hate crime and the criminal law. The Journal of Criminal Law, 86 (2). pp. 109-125. ISSN 1740-5580 (https://doi.org/10.1177/00220183221086679)
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Abstract
It has been well established at a global level that sex workers are often victims of direct violence in the course of their work, targeted by their 'perceived vulnerability' as a marginalised group. In one police force in England (Merseyside) since 2006 they have addressed this victimisation through adopting a 'hate crime' approach to policing crimes against sex workers. The aims of this paper are first, to review the implementation of the hate crime model applied to crimes against sex workers; second, to explore how police forces are adopting the policy across the UK, and the operational barriers to doing so; and third to explore the legal, theoretical and critical issues raised by treating crimes against sex workers as a type of hate crime through policing models. The conclusion weighs up some of the challenges to expanding the current law to include sex workers as a target group for increased protection, assessing that a fully funded policing approach may well be sufficient alongside law reform around decriminalisation of sex work. This article will draw on data from police forces in England. We acknowledge that much more work is needed to establish the sex work community's views on the value, if any, of the hate crime approach.
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Item type: Article ID code: 80977 Dates: DateEvent1 April 2022Published21 March 2022Published Online29 September 2021AcceptedSubjects: Law > Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland
Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare > Criminal justice administration
Social SciencesDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Law School > Law Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 09 Jun 2022 09:38 Last modified: 01 Aug 2024 01:35 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/80977