Resources and Reports

Craigslist Reduced Violence Against Women
(Cunningham et. al, 2019)

A Review of the Criminalisation of Paying for Sexual Services in Northern Ireland
(Queens University Belfast School of Law/Ellison, Ní Dhónaill and Early 2019, on behalf of the UK DOJ)

The Impact of the Prostitution Reform Act on the Health and Safety Practices of Sex Workers
(Abel et. al., 2007)

Community-Based Responses to Negative Health Impacts of Sexual Humanitarian Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Criminalization of Sex Work and Migration in the US 
(Hoefinger et. al, 2020)

Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health 
(Cunningham and Shah, 2018)

Research Brief: After SESTA/FOSTA
(The Samaritan Women)

Twenty Years of Failing Sex Workers: A community report on the impact of the 1999 Swedish Sex Purchase Act
(Fuckförbundet, 2019)

A Decade of Decriminalization: Sex work ‘down under’ but not underground
(Abel, 2014)

Moving Beyond Supply and Demand ‘Catchphrases: Assessing the uses and limitations of demand-based approaches in anti-trafficking
(Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, 2011)

Diversion From Justice: A Rights-Based Analysis of Local “Prostitution Diversion Programs” and Their Impacts on People in the Sex Sector in the United States
(Yale Law School, 2018)

Decreasing Human Trafficking Through Sex Work Decriminalization
(Albright and D’Adamo, 2017)

Stigma in the Sex Trades
(Wolf, 2018)

The Nature and Prevalence of Prostitution and Sex Work in England and Wales Today
(University of Bristol, 2019)

New Directions in Research on Human Trafficking
(AAPSS/Weitzer 2014)

The Swedish Law To Criminalize Clients: A failed experiment
(American University, Washington College of Law/Jordan, 2017)

Un-Meetable Promises: Rhetoric and Reality in New York City’s Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
(Yale Law School, 2018)

The Human Cost of ‘Crushing’ the Market: Criminalization of Sex Work in Norway
(Amnesty International, 2016)

Beyond the Gaze: Briefing on Customers Who Buy Sex Online
(University of Leicester/Sanders et. al, 2017)

The Intersection of Sex Work and HIV Criminalization
(The Center for HIV Law and Policy,  2017)

Ten Reasons to Decriminalize Sex Work
(Open Society Foundations/Public Health Program, 2015)

Over-Policing Sex Trafficking: How U.S. Law Enforcement Should Reform Operations
(USC Gould School of Law/International Human Rights Clinic, 2021)

Decriminalization of Sex Work To Fight HIV Infections Worldwide
(The Lancet, 2014)

Evaluation of Prosecutorial Policy Reforms Eliminating Criminal Penalties for Drug Possession and Sex Work in Baltimore, Maryland
(Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Department of Health, Behavior and Society, October 19, 2021)

Ireland: Laws criminalizing sex work are facilitating the targeting and abuse of sex workers
(Amnesty International, January 24, 2022)

Sex work community participation in criminalized environments: a community-based cohort study of occupational health impacts in Vancouver, Canada: 2010–20198
(International Journal for Equity in Health, February 9, 2022)