DemandAT looked into the role of demand in trafficking in human beings and the impact and potential of demand-side measures in reducing trafficking, drawing on insights from regulating demand in related areas. Lund University was engaged in the project through Petra Östergren (project leader) and Isabelle Johansson, both PhD candidates in social anthropology at the Department of Sociology.
- Learn more and download the working paper at demandat.eu
- More about DemandAT on our research pages.
- Petra Östergren’s personal page
- Isabelle Johansson's personal page
- The European Policy Brief ‘Preventing Exploitation and Trafficking in the Sex Work Sector’ has also been published based on this research. Learn more at demandat.eu
- The Swedish news magazine Fokus featured an extensive interview with Petra Östrgren this past summer. Read the article (in Swedish) at fokus.se
Abstract for the Working Paper:
This tenth DemandAT working paper by Petra Östergren from Lund University develops a typology for prostitution policy regimes.
Based on an inductive methodological approach, it presents a typology of three general prostitution policy models (or regimes), as repressive, restrictive or integrative.
The intention of such a tripartite typology is that it can serve as a tool for assessing, evaluating and comparing prostitution policies, even in cases where they seem to contain contradictory or incoherent elements. Besides using the prostitution policy typology for analytical purposes, it can also serve as a tool for developing context-sensitive measures against violence, exploitation and trafficking in human beings in the sex work sector.