scholarly journals Street Prostitution Zones and Crime

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bisschop ◽  
Stephen Kastoryano ◽  
Bas van der Klaauw

This paper studies the effects of legal street prostitution zones on registered and perceived crime. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where these tippelzones were opened in nine cities under different regulation systems. Our difference-in-difference analysis of 25 Dutch cities between 1994–2011 shows that opening a tippelzone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30–40 percent in the first two years. For cities which enforced licensing in tippelzones, we also find reductions in drug-related crime and long-term effects on sexual assaults. Effects on perceived drug nuisance depend on the regulation system and the proximity of respondents to the tippelzone. (JEL J16, J47, K42)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5451
Author(s):  
Derk Jan Stobbelaar

The aim of this study is to determine the contribution of student interventions to urban greening processes. In two Dutch cities action research was conducted, including reflexive interviews a year after the first intervention, to assess factors causing change in the socio-ecological system. Results show that students and network actors were mutually learning, causing the empowerment of actors in that network by adding contextualized knowledge, enlarging the social network, expanding the amount of interactions in the socio-ecological system and speeding up the process. Students brought unique qualities to the process: time, access to stakeholders who tend to distrust the municipality and a certain open-mindedness. Their mere presence made a difference and started a process of change. However, university staff needed to keep the focus on long-term effects and empowerment, because students did not oversee that. After a year, many new green elements had been developed or were in the planning phase. In Enschede, the municipality district managers were part of the learning network, which made it easier to cause changes in the main ecological network. In Haarlem however, no change took place in the main ecological network managed by the municipality, because no political empowerment of the civil society group had developed yet.


1992 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Bushnell ◽  
J. E. Wells ◽  
M. A. Oakley-Browne

2008 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 459-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy L. Pederson ◽  
Daniel R. Vanhorn ◽  
Josephine F. Wilson ◽  
Lisa M. Martorano ◽  
Jana M. Venema ◽  
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A sample of 811 women ages 18 to 59 ( M = 26.0, SD=6.5) responded to an advertisement by telephone. Inquiries were made about childhood abuse status and adult use of alcohol, nicotine, and prescription and illicit drugs. Significant associations were noted for reported sexual, physical, and emotional childhood abuse with use of nicotine, marijuana, and antidepressants in adulthood. Reported childhood physical and emotional abuses were also significantly associated with use of cocaine and anxiolytics, and sexual abuse with antipsychotic use in adulthood. Only childhood emotional abuse was associated with the use of sleeping pills. Number of types of abuse was significantly related with use of nicotine, marijuana, cocaine, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and anxiolytics. Alcohol use was not related to any type of abuse. The long-term effects of childhood emotional abuse may be just as severe as physical or sexual abuse.


2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suchitra Bhandari ◽  
David Winter ◽  
David Messer ◽  
Chris Metcalfe

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazim Ya. Orujev ◽  
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Olga V. Poplavskaya ◽  
N.A. Chernaya ◽  
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