Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health
Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health
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DOI：
10.1093/restud/rdx065
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发表时间：
2018-07-01
影响因子：
5.8
通讯作者：
Shah, Manisha
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作者：
Cunningham, Scott;Shah, Manisha
世界上大多数政府，包括美国，都禁止性工作。鉴于这些类型的法律很少改变，并且在各个地区都相当统一，我们对性工作非刑罪化影响的了解在很大程度上是推测性的。我们利用罗德岛地方法院法官出人意料地将室内性工作非刑事化这一事实来提供非刑事化对性市场构成、报告的强奸犯罪和性传播感染的影响的因果估计。虽然非刑事化扩大了室内性市场的规模，但报告的强奸犯罪数量下降了 30%，女性淋病发病率下降了 40% 以上。
Most governments in the world, including the U.S., prohibit sex work. Given these types of laws rarely change and are fairly uniform across regions, our knowledge about the impact of decriminalizing sex work is largely conjectural. We exploit the fact that a Rhode Island District Court judge unexpectedly decriminalized indoor sex work to provide causal estimates of the impact of decriminalization on the composition of the sex market, reported rape offences, and sexually transmitted infections. While decriminalization increases the size of the indoor sex market, reported rape offences fall by 30% and female gonorrhoea incidence declines by over 40%.