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Speaker: Professor
Roger Mathews
Affiliation: Middlesex
University
Presentation Title:
Prostitution: A National Audit
Abstract
Although there has been a growing amount of research
on prostitution in recent years much of this has been limited to certain
localities and has been mainly for the consumption of specific funding
bodies. Consequently our knowledge of variations in the sex trade around
the country is limited and our overall knowledge of prostitution is patchy.
This paper draws on national research which has been carried out which
has tried to collate the available evidence which is currently available
from the organizations and agencies which are involved in supporting and
regulating prostitution. From the information gathered an attempt will
be made to examine the operation of sex work in different parts of the
country, to identify trends as well as different forms of organization
and policing. The aim of this overview is to inform policy and to extend
our understanding of the numbers of women involved in street and off street
prostitution, their ages, their involvement in drug use and to review
the level of services and support which is available.
