prostitution

Question 1

Section 14, Police and Crime Act 2009

Answer 1

• An offence to make or promise payment
• For the sexual services of a prostitute
• When a third party has engaged in sexual exploitation
• In expectation of gain for them self of another person.

Question 2

who was the first country to criminalise paying for sex and in what year?

Answer 2

• Sweden

- 1998

Question 3

What did England and wales home affairs select committee do?

Answer 3

• They looked into laws on prostitution and decided reforms where necessary but more information on the topic was required first

Question 4

Street offences Act 1959

Answer 4

• It is not an offence to exchange money for sex

- Is an offence to loiter and solicit

Question 5

sexual offences Act 2003

Answer 5

• Highlights offences in relation to trafficking for sexual exploitation.

Question 6

What is the punishment for prostitution?

Answer 6

• A fine

- Not an effective deterrence

Question 7

Why could it be considered unprincipled?

Which principle demonstrates this?

Answer 7

• Because it criminalises men who did not have mens rea and therefore did not know the person was being exploited
• correspondence

Question 8

What it is the law in Northern Ireland?

Answer 8

• It is simply illegal to pay for sex

Question 9

What was the significance of the 1957 Wolfenden report?

(report of the departmental committee on homosexual offences and prostitution)

Answer 9

• There is a role to regulate prostitution as it is a public matter
• It stated that prostitution is and evil that any society claiming to be civilised should seek to rid itself
• Looked into whether the use of criminal law was the way to do this or whether education would be more effective.