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The Devil In The Details: Sex Work Legalization, Sexual Violence, And Moral Subjectivity, Molly Hauf
The Devil In The Details: Sex Work Legalization, Sexual Violence, And Moral Subjectivity, Molly Hauf
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Prostitution legislation has re-emerged in public and academic discourse in recent decades after relative silence on the issue since the mid-twentieth century, spurred by Sweden’s adoption of prostitution decriminalization - the first known legislation criminalizing the buyers of sex (rather than the sellers) to be actualized in legislation. Since then, scholarship examining the population-level effects of such legal changes has found evidence that changes in legislation affect rates of sexual violence, although the causal credibility and generalizability of some of this scholarship is disputed. Additionally, much of the previous scholarship examining this question used relatively small sample sizes that include …