Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform

Evaluating the Swedish Ban on the Purchase of Sexual Services: The Anna Skarhed Report (8)

7/02/10 •

Chancellor of Justice Anna Skarhed recently presented the findings from Sweden’s first official evaluation of the 1998 ban governing the purchase, albeit not the sale, of sexual services.   The key details of the report that have already been reported widely throughout the Swedish press are:

For the period 1998-2008, levels of street prostitution in Sweden [...]

Denmark: Brothels as Activation Strategies for the Unemployed? (1)

6/29/10 •

Eyebrows were raised and pointed questions were asked recently in Denmark when a local job center allowed an unemployed woman to receive four weeks of training at a Copenhagen brothel as part of labor market activation programs.
The woman located the training position herself, with the Slagelse job center subsequently signing off on the placement as [...]

NPPR is hiring! (0)

6/13/10 •

Research Assistant
University of Stirling, School of History & Politics
Fixed Term, 12 months
£23,566-£28,983 p.a.
The School of History & Politics, University of Stirling, is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to work with Dr Gregg Bucken-Knapp on the Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform (NPPR) Project, funded by the Swedish Research Council.
The NPPR Project draws upon ideational approaches in [...]

The rise and fall of the Joint Action in Norway (0)

6/08/10 •

While Norway’s sex purchase ban went into effect in 2009, one might have expected a Norwegian sex purchase act much earlier. Norway had a broad coalition of activists campaigning against pornography and prostitution in the 1970s and ’80s. Using both militant action and public awareness raising methods, the movement gained some legislative success, but ultimately [...]