We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … down on prostitution with the Prostitution (Public Places) Scotland Act 2007 and the Policing and Crime Act of 2009 in … prostitution. …

This paper investigates empirically whether prostitution reduces sex crimes. Theoretical predictions suggest two … contradicting effects: substituting or complementing. By using survey data of sex offenders in Korea, I find that prostitution … sex crimes. These results indicate that prostitution intensifies one's propensities for more violent sexual behaviors …

This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime …. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under … street prostitution zone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30% to 40% in the first two years. For cities …

in the era before railways. Here we use detailed data for Paris on women arrested for prostitution in the 1760s, or …

Liberal prostitution policy aims at improving labour conditions for prostitutes and protecting victims of forced … prostitution. Its policy orientation predicts that the policy choice of liberalizing prostitution is positively associated with … empirically whether the legalization of prostitution improves protection policy for victims, as it is presumed. The results of my …