Is There a Nordic Prostitution Regime?

Skilbrei, May-Len; Holmström, Charlotta

doi:10.1086/659841

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“…One result is a process of amplification by which harms come to be seen as more serious than in earlier times. Since the late 1990s, sexual offenses in Scandinavian countries have received steadily increasing political and ideological attention (Skilbrei andHolmströ m 2011, 2013). In both political debates and the media, crime discourse in Scandinavia is increasingly victimcentered and moralistic (Tham et al 2011).…”

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“…It is difficult, for example, not to hypothesize that all three mechanisms are major causes of recent increases in rates of sexual offending and assaults in official data in the Scandinavian countries (Selmini and McElrath 2014). Sexual crimes are the targets of major social and political movements there and the subjects of important changes in criminal laws and practices (Skilbrei andHolmströ m 2011, 2013;Tham, Rö nneling, and Rytterbro 2011). It would be astonishing if those initiatives had no effects on cultural attitudes, victim behavior, and police policies and practices.…”

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Why Crime Rates Are Falling throughout the Western World

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2014

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Why Crime Rates Are Falling throughout the Western World

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2014

Crime and Justice

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“…Its proponents in parliament regarded it at the time as a feminist success, while some opponents described it as antifeminist in character (Erikson 2012). Several countries have introduced similar bans on buying sex during the last decade, with Norway and Iceland criminalizing the client and Finland adopting partial criminalization (Skilbrei and Holmström 2011).…”

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Institutions, Gendered Perceptions, and Frames of Meaning: Explaining Strategic Choices of Women MPs in Swedish Prostitution Policy

Erikson

2018

Journal of Women, Politics & Policy

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Previous research has shown that politics is a highly gendered field and that male and female decision-makers hold different values and engage with different issues as well. Feminist institutionalism has provided important insights concerning how a given context creates the conditions for political behavior and outcomes in respect to gender. While both formal and informal institutions have been of interest in this field of research, less attention has been directed to the perceptions actors have of the institutional context. The starting point of this article is the constructivist notion that actors' behavior is mediated by their perceptions of the context, and it proposes that frame of meaning can be fruitfully used as an analytical concept for capturing gendered perceptions. The aim of the article is twofold. The first is to develop the notion of gendered frame of meaning as an analytical concept. The second is to investigate the strategies used by female MPs in the case of Swedish prostitution policy in order to show how gendered frames of meaning guided their strategic choices. The added value of this approach is that it furthers our understanding of how the institutional context influences actors' behavior on the microlevel.

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“…Here, ‘prostituted women’ (Jeffreys ) are increasingly framed as victims with ‘pimps’ and clients cast as the offenders. Indeed, in Sweden, Norway and Iceland, such understandings of prostitution have led to the decriminalisation of selling sex and the criminalisation of buying sex (Skilbrei and Holmström ). Despite the growing influence of radical feminism in some policy circles, it is important to recognise that radical feminist understandings of prostitution have been heavily criticised (see, for instance, O'Neill ; Scoular ; Weitzer ).…”

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Governing Sex Work in the City

Laing

Cook

2014

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Sex work is often constructed as an urban 'problem'. As a result, sex workers, clients and the spaces in which people buy or sell sex are frequently the subject of intervention from those governing cities. This paper considers the ways in which problems and solutions are framed in the wider governance of sex work in cities in the global north. It draws on a range of academic literature to show how the urban governance of sex work takes relational and territorial forms. Governance is relational in the sense that it is about 'improving' the connections and relationships between those involved in sex work and those seemingly affected by sex work; and it is territorial in that placing sex work in the city through spatial exclusion, containment and the construction and maintenance of spatial boundaries is often the focus of strategies of governance. The paper argues that while the urban governance of sex work is contingent, there are often resonances and connections between cities in how they frame the problem of sex work and the interventions used. The paper concludes by highlighting future areas for research on the subject of sex work, governance and the city.

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Is There a Nordic Prostitution Regime?

Cited by 31 publications

References 22 publications

Why Crime Rates Are Falling throughout the Western World

Why Crime Rates Are Falling throughout the Western World

Institutions, Gendered Perceptions, and Frames of Meaning: Explaining Strategic Choices of Women MPs in Swedish Prostitution Policy

Governing Sex Work in the City

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