The police, sex work, and Section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009

Kingston, Sarah orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9226-1915 and Thomas, Terry (2014) The police, sex work, and Section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 53 (3). pp. 255-269. ISSN 0265-5527

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12060

Abstract

This article considers the origins and aims of Section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 and the offence of paying for the sexual services of a prostitute who has been subject to exploitative conduct; this offence is one of ‘strict liability’. Section 14 was implemented on 1 April 2010 and using the Freedom of Information Act 2000 the authors have attempted to show the number of times Section 14 has been used by the police in England and Wales since the Act became law; how the Act has been used and the outcome of the use of this section.


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