Alone against the danger: a study of the routine precautions taken by voluntary sex workers to avoid victimisation
Abstract This article explores the routine precautions taken by sex workers (SW) in Switzerland, a country in which sex work is a legal activity. It is based on approximately 1100 h of non-systematic participant observation spread over 18 months and 14 semi-structured interviews with indoor and outd...
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| description | Abstract This article explores the routine precautions taken by sex workers (SW) in Switzerland, a country in which sex work is a legal activity. It is based on approximately 1100 h of non-systematic participant observation spread over 18 months and 14 semi-structured interviews with indoor and outdoor SW. The findings show that SW use a series of routine precautions that overlap with the situational prevention techniques for increasing perpetrators’ efforts or their perception of the risk of offending, reducing the rewards of the crime, and decreasing the provocations and perpetrators’ excuses. Future tests of the efficacy of these routine precautions could help developing specific situational crime prevention techniques for deterring offences against SW. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-801d592d5e9948ebbef6b84e266e1caa2022-12-22T02:32:21ZengBMCCrime Science2193-76802022-06-0111111110.1186/s40163-022-00166-zAlone against the danger: a study of the routine precautions taken by voluntary sex workers to avoid victimisationLorena Molnar0Marcelo F. Aebi1School of Criminal Sciences, UNIL-SorgeSchool of Criminal Sciences, UNIL-SorgeAbstract This article explores the routine precautions taken by sex workers (SW) in Switzerland, a country in which sex work is a legal activity. It is based on approximately 1100 h of non-systematic participant observation spread over 18 months and 14 semi-structured interviews with indoor and outdoor SW. The findings show that SW use a series of routine precautions that overlap with the situational prevention techniques for increasing perpetrators’ efforts or their perception of the risk of offending, reducing the rewards of the crime, and decreasing the provocations and perpetrators’ excuses. Future tests of the efficacy of these routine precautions could help developing specific situational crime prevention techniques for deterring offences against SW.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-022-00166-zSew workProstitutionVictimisationLegalisationRoutine precautionsSituational crime prevention |
| spellingShingle | Lorena Molnar Marcelo F. Aebi Alone against the danger: a study of the routine precautions taken by voluntary sex workers to avoid victimisation Crime Science Sew work Prostitution Victimisation Legalisation Routine precautions Situational crime prevention |
| title | Alone against the danger: a study of the routine precautions taken by voluntary sex workers to avoid victimisation |
| title_full | Alone against the danger: a study of the routine precautions taken by voluntary sex workers to avoid victimisation |
| title_fullStr | Alone against the danger: a study of the routine precautions taken by voluntary sex workers to avoid victimisation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Alone against the danger: a study of the routine precautions taken by voluntary sex workers to avoid victimisation |
| title_short | Alone against the danger: a study of the routine precautions taken by voluntary sex workers to avoid victimisation |
| title_sort | alone against the danger a study of the routine precautions taken by voluntary sex workers to avoid victimisation |
| topic | Sew work Prostitution Victimisation Legalisation Routine precautions Situational crime prevention |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-022-00166-z |
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