Street Prostitution Zones and Crime

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bisschop, Paul; Kastoryano, Stephen; van der Klaauw, Bas
• 署名单位: University of Mannheim; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20150299
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 28-63
• 关键词: police; displacement; TRAFFICKING; diffusion; benefits; fear

摘要

This paper studies the effects of legal street prostitution zones on registered and perceived crime. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where these tippelzones were opened in nine cities under different regulation systems. Our difference-in-difference analysis of 25 Dutch cities between 1994-2011 shows that opening a tippelzone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30-40 percent in the first two years. For cities which enforced licensing in tippelzones, we also find reductions in drug-related crime and long-term effects on sexual assaults. Effects on perceived drug nuisance depend on the regulation system and the proximity of respondents to the tippelzone.