Sex Work and Hate Crime

Dr Rosie Campbell OBE is a freelance consultant focused on applied research and third sector leadership. She describes herself as a ‘pracademic’ having moved between research roles and managing frontline sex work support services, delivering and developing sex work projects and contributing to multi agency responses to sex work. She has been involved in researching sex work in a range of sectors and geographical areas of the UK for over two decades. Teela Sanders is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester, UK. She is a leading international scholar in research on the intersections between gender, regulation, governance and crime, specifically in the sex industry. Sanders has written 8 books, edited 10, and has over 60 peer reviewed journal articles, based on research projects funded from major research councils

Chapter 1: Why Is Hate Crime a Helpful Concept to Respond to Violence Against Sex Workers?.- Chapter 2: What is hate crime in the context of sex work?.- Chapter 3: Sex work, crimes and policing in the UK.- Chapter 4: The inclusion of sex work in the policing of hate crime: The Merseyside Model.- Chapter 5: 'Everyday' hate directed at sex workers.- Chapter 6: The invisible victim: barriers to accessing criminal justice.- Chapter 7: Developing, implementing and maintaining the model.- Chapter 8: Conclusions: Implications for law, policing and scholarship.