Criminal Law

Prostitution, Politics and Policy by Roger Matthews
From the publisher’s website: Governments in different parts of the world have been struggling to develop constructive policies to deal with prostitution ? as, for example, the British Home Office recently instigated a £1...

Virginia: Immigration-Linked Prostitution Cases Pose Challenge
"But a closer look at the rings reveals that the line between the local crime of prostitution and the federal crime of sex trafficking is often blurred in subtle details."

The Spitzer Investigation: Debating the Prosecutorial Function
When the initial thrill and shock of the prostitution scandal surrounding former New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer dissipated a bit, the same, perplexing question seemed to beset the legal community, particularly those familiar with the workings of the U...

Sen. Debbie Stabenows Husband Implicated in Prostitution Arrest
Yet, another prostitution scandal was triggered today with the disclosure that the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Thomas Athans, allegedly admitted to police that he used the Internet to arrange for a prostitute to come to his hotel and paid for services...

Research and data on prostitution, punishment and shaming sanctions
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...

An Empirical Analysis of Street-Level Prostitution
Combining transaction-level data on street prostitutes with ethnographic observation andofficial police force data, we analyze the economics of prostitution in Chicago. A prostitute is more likely to have sex with a police officer than to get officially arrested by one...

DC Madame Phone List
Telephone Records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's Escort Service (Pamela Martin and Associates)

Office Politics
Ramsey County pays two deputies $750,000 settlement after being placed in dead end jobs.

Bank Scandal
Swiss bank pays Parmalat $30 million bankruptcy settlement.