In our continuing efforts to educate and expand awareness of commercial sexual exploitation, the CSE Institute periodically publishes Policy Papers that discuss key issues and best practices to address this horrific crime.
Read our most recent policy paper, Why Recidivism Provisions in the Crime of Prostitution Equate to Gender-Based Inequality and Should be Removed. This paper addresses why recidivism provisions attached to the crime of prostitution render useless in deterring women from committing the crime, and how, in realty, these provisions amount to gender-based inequality. Pennsylvania has one of the harshest penalties for the crime of prostitution, and in this paper, the CSE Institute advocates for the removal of these harsh and archaic provisions.
This policy paper is based off of an open letter critiquing Pennsylvania’s recidivism penalties for the crime prostitution. Read the letter. The letter was also published as an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on October 2, 2015.