Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Towards safer streets / The Economist, 19th Dec 2006

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"The government will be forced to re-think its policies on prostitution. AT LAST a break in the Ipswich murders case that has transfixed Britain. The death of these young women, who all worked as prostitutes, has lent urgency to a long-running debate on two questions: how to protect prostitutes, and how to control the booming sex trade. Those whose main aim is making prostitutes safer favour legalising their business in order to cut its links with organised crime. Those who are mostly interested in containing prostitution want to crack down on its practitioners."