@article{ref1,
title="Underreporting of violence to police among women sex workers in Canada: amplified inequities for im/migrant and in-call workers prior to and following end-demand  legislation",
journal="Health and human rights",
year="2020",
author="Strathdee, Steffanie and McBride, Bronwyn and Bingham, Brittany and Shannon, Kate and Goldenberg, Shira M. and Braschel, Melissa",
volume="22",
number="2",
pages="257-270",
abstract="Sex workers globally face high levels of violence. In Canada, im/migrant sex workers who work in indoor venues may be uniquely targeted by police due to immigration  policies, racialized policing, and the conflation of trafficking and sex work. In  2014, Canada passed end-demand legislation that purportedly encourages sex workers  to report violence to police; however, little research has evaluated its impact. Using interrupted time series and multivariable logistic regression, we examined  proportions of reporting violent incidents to police among sex workers who had  experienced workplace violence (2010-2017), including potential changes prior to and  following end-demand legislation. We then modeled the independent effects of  im/migrant status and place of work on reporting violence. Among sex workers who  experienced recent violence during the 7.5-year study (n=367), 38.2% of all  participants and 12.7% of im/migrants reported violence to police, and there was no  significant change in violence reporting after end-demand legislation. Our results  suggest that end-demand laws do not remove barriers to justice faced by sex workers  and instead actually perpetuate harms, particularly for racialized im/migrant and  indoor workers. Policy reforms to decriminalize sex work, address discriminatory  policing, and promote access to safety and justice are urgently needed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1079-0969",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}