See also:

Member Biographies

2008

Prostitution Law Review Committee's report

Victoria University: Crime and Justice Research Centre

Central Government Aims and Local Government Responses: The Prostitution Reform Act 2003

Exiting Prostitution: Models of Best Practice

Key Informant Interviews Review of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003

Christchurch School of Medicine

The Impact of the Prostitution Reform Act on the Health and Safety Practices of Sex Workers

2005

The Nature and Extent of the Sex Industry in New Zealand: An Estimation

The Sex Industry in New Zealand: A Literature Review

Prostitution Law Review Committee

International Approaches to Decriminalising or Legalising Prostitution

Prepared for the Ministry of Justice by

Dr Elaine Mossman

Crime and Justice Research Centre
Victoria University of Wellington

1 Introduction

2 Clarification of legislative approaches

2.1 Criminalisation
2.2 Legalisation
2.3 Decriminalisation
2.4 Unregulated regimes
2.5 Categories of prostitution offences

3 Directory of countries

4 Impacts of legislation

4.1 Difficulties in assessing impacts
4.2 Broad conclusions

Tables

Table 1 New Zealand and New South Wales (decriminalisation)
Table 2 Australian states that have legalised prostitution (legalisation)
Table 3 Other countries that have legalised prostitution (legalisation)
Table 4 Countries where prostitution is not criminal, but heavily regulated

Full report PDF Adobe Acrobat v5 118KB

First published in October 2007 by the

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