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“I don’t work the street much anymore. I ’m in the escort business now. Working the streets goes hand-in-hand with the drug trade. Most of the street prostitutes have some sort of drug addiction. The greater the addiction, the more desperate they are to make money. They end up lowering their prices just to get a fix. A lot of the girls accept drugs as payment and even show the john where to buy them. Sometimes they rip-off the john, and that gives all prostitutes in the area a bad reputation.”
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Impose community service sentences in lieu of incarceration or fines.
Show/Hide DetailsCommunity service sanctions, when properly monitored and enforced, have been shown to be more effective than jail time or fines alone.
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Educate and warn high-risk prostitute and client populations.
Show/Hide DetailsWorking with other institutions, you can target education and warning messages to groups especially likely to become involved in prostitution, as either prostitutes or clients.
Certain groups are especially vulnerable to being recruited or drawn to street prostitution, among them juvenile offenders, juvenile runaways and juveniles in group homes (residential custody). Young people who are at high risk for being recruited into prostitution usually have multiple critical social and psychological problems that require attention if they are to be kept out of prostitution.
Among the high-risk client groups are male conventioneers, male soldiers, and previously arrested clients. The education and warning information can be conveyed through letters, lectures, video presentations, billboards, warning signs, or media outlets. A growing number of jurisdictions have established court-ordered education programs for convicted clients. These so-called "john schools" confront prostitution clients about the consequences of their behavior. They usually include information about the legal and health consequences for clients, the impact of street prostitution on the community, and the negative effects of prostitution on prostitutes. Recidivism rates for clients who participate in court-ordered education programs are low (around 2% to 7%). It is less clear what added deterrent value there is in the education program beyond what is achieved by any official intervention, from a warning to an arrest.
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Notify those with influence over clients’ conduct.
Show/Hide DetailsEmployers, schools, the military, convention organizers, and other individuals or groups often exert significant informal influence over prostitution clients' conduct. You can leverage this influence by seeking such third parties' cooperation to discipline clients who come to police attention. This strategy is not intended merely to shame clients, but rather to change their behavior through disciplinary systems outside the formal justice system. Keep in mind that some forms of discipline, such as employment termination, can be severe.
