PAAFE Reports
Breaking Down Barriers - One Day At A Time
COARSE Community Resource Report - Court Diversion Report
Court Diversion Report - SROI
COARSE Court Diversion is a provincial court-approved diversion program for individuals charged with offenses related to prostitution, operated by the Prostitution Awareness and Action Foundation of Edmonton. Individuals who want to exit street prostitution can participate in a court-approved case plan that may result in withdrawal of charges or reduced criminal justice system sanctions. Individual case plans may include addictions treatment, education, job training, income support, housing, health care, and other programs and resources. The SROI study compares the cost of supporting COARSE participants who no longer engage in prostitution (quantified through interviews with participants), against the costs accrued by non-participants and others who re-offend and continue to be involved in the criminal justice system.
Reports and Studies
The Swedish Law That Prohibits the Purchase of Sexual Services Best Practices for Prevention of Prostitution and Trafficking in Human Beings - GUNILLA EKBERG, Ministry of Industry, Employment, and Communications
The Law is the first attempt by a country to address the root cause of prostitution and trafficking in beings: the demand, the men who assume the right to purchase persons for prostitution purposes. This groundbreaking law is a cornerstone of Swedish efforts to create a contemporary, democratic society where women and girls can live lives free of all forms of male violence. In combination with public education, awareness-raising campaigns, and victim support, the Law and other legislation establish a zero tolerance policy for prostitution and trafficking in human beings.
“Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart”: Prostitution Harms Women Even if Legalized or Decriminalized - MELISSA FARLEY, Prostitution Research and Education
With examples from a 2003 New Zealand prostitution law, this article discusses the logical inconsistencies in laws sponsoring prostitution and includes evidence for the physical, emotional, and social harms of prostitution. These harms are not decreased by legalization or decriminalization. The article addresses the confusion caused by organizations that oppose trafficking but at the same time promote prostitution as a justifiable form of labor for poor women. The failure of condom distribution/harm reduction programs to protect women in prostitution from rape, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and HIV is discussed. The success of such programs in obtaining funding and in promoting prostitution as sex work is also discussed.
Prostitution on Demand, Legalizing the Buyers as Sexual Consumers - JANICE G. RAYMOND, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Research, programs, and legislation related to sex trafficking are often premised on the invisibility of the male buyer and the failure to address men’s role in buying and abusing women in prostitution. This article looks at the demand—its meaning, the myths that rationalize why men buy women in prostitution, qualitative information on the buyers in two studies conducted by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW)—as well as best practices that address the gender of demand.