Sex as Crime?

This book brings together chapters by writers and researchers from various disciplines to analyse how issues such as sex work, domestic violence and rape and sexual assault have risen up the Government agenda in recent years - for example, the 'Paying the Price' consultaion exercise on sex work in 2004, and recent legislation around sex crimes, including the Sex Offences Act (2003). Editors and authors are also motivated by the need to question relationships between sex, crime and violence more generally given that this area of research within the criminological domain is often overshadowed by issues such as policing and community safety. This is a multi-disciplinary, social scientific, pro-feminist collection, which draws upon practice, empirical research, documentary analysis and overviews of research in the areas of sex work and sexual violence. Within Sex as Crime? there are two distinct sub-sections - 'Sex for Sale' and 'Sex as Violence' - but the broader and overriding link of sex as crime remains a paramount theme that spans the collection. Chapters include discussions of the impact of new regulations on street sex workers, and of street sex work on community residents, the use of the internet by men who pay for sex and men who sell it, sexual violence and identity, sex crimes against children and protecting children online and working with sex offenders. Other chapters explore the reasons for such offending behaviour, while there is an additional focus on the relationship between national and international concerns.