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: Sentencing Law and Policy

Research and data on prostitution, punishment and shaming sanctions

By Douglas A. Berman

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This NPR segment, titled "The Legality of Prostitution," got me wondering about research on prostitution and punishment.  The NPR piece referenced this interesting recent paper, titled "An Empirical Analysis of Street-Level Prostitution," which is authored by Steven Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. The paper is focused on just the economics of prostitution in Chicago, and it has lots of interesting findings.  This passage especially caught my eye: We estimate that prostitutes are officially arrested only once per 450 tricks, with johns arrested even less frequently. Punishment conditional on arrest is limited ? roughly 1 in 10 prostitute arrests leads to a prison sentence, with a mean sentence length of 1.2 years among that group...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).

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