Given that European countries approach prostitution and its markets in different ways, the landscape of contemporary prostitution policies in Europe presents great variations. The latter are not only found between European countries and regions, but also within countries at sub-national levels. This ...
Scott Sumner compares output in the U.S. and the four biggest European nations (Germany, U.K., France, and Italy), observes that per-capita tax collections in the U.S. are almost as high as they are in these other countries with far higher tax burdens, and has somemust-read analysis...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2056291Barbara HavelkovaSsrn Electronic JournalHAVELKOVA, B. European Gender Equality Under and After State Socialism: Legal Treatment of Prostitution in the Czech Republic. M. A. thesis. Oxford University, Exeter College, 2009....
The Socialists say the bill is aimed at banning pimping in all its forms. They add that the law does not aim to penalize prostitutes but rather offer them protection as victims of a crime. Article content Several other European countries already have similar legislation. Article content Article...
Laws on prostitution vary considerably from country to country: in some countries it is punishable by death penalty ("Iran - Facts on Trafficking”), in some it is a crime punishable by prison sentence, while in other jurisdictions, it is a lesser administrative offense punishable only with a...
Moving along to 1562 and up the British and other countries joined in on the slave trade with Africans. In 1904 an agreement tiled “ International Agreement for the Suppression of White Slave Trade” was signed and this agreement was to protect women, at an old or young age, from being ...
countries into the Netherlands to work as prostitutes. It was reported that by 1999, more than two-thirds of the prostitutes in the Netherlands were foreign (Galiana, 2000). This fact, paired with the statistic that “80% of women in the brothels of the Netherlands were trafficked from ...
We assess attitudes in eight European countries, using newly collected survey data. This is one of few studies comparing attitudes across different prostitution regimes. Citizens in countries where the purchase of sex is criminalized are less tolerant toward the buying of sex compared to citizens ...
We show that individuals tends to justify prostitution more in countries where it is legal or regulated and less in...doi:10.1007/s10657-015-9491-2Immordino, GCSEFRusso, F. FCSEFSpringer USEuropean Journal of Law & EconomicsImmordino, G., & Russo, F. F. (2015). Laws and stigma: ...
“We want real jobs, not blowjobs,” said a First Nations survivor of prostitution in 2009. Prostitution exploits women’s lack of survival options. Research conducted in nine countries found that 89% of all those in prostitution said that they were in prostitution because they had no alternati...