Citation

Brunschot EGV. Can. Rev. Sociol. Anthropol. 2003; 40(2): 215-232.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, University of Toronto Press)

DOI

10.1111/j.1755-618X.2003.tb00244.x

PMID

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Abstract

Policing today has gone through and continues to undergo changes in its basic philosophy and practice. Areas of social control previously ignored by police are now included under the rhetoric of "community policing." Control of prostitution activity, although an historical mainstay of policing directed primarily at female sex workers, has recently been subsumed under the umbrella of community policing through particular methods aimed at its control. This paper examines community policing and the expanded police role through the example of "John schools" or prostitution offender programs. As community policing in practice, such prostitution offender programs highlight the difficulties of the community policing approach generally, and the policing perspective on prostitution more specifically.