2018/01/20 by Stewart Cunningham, Teela Sanders, Lucy Platt +2 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Medicine · Psychology · Engineering · #Sex work and related issues #HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk #Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology #Homicide #Occupational safety and health #Human factors and ergonomics #Poison control #Injury prevention #Suicide prevention #Criminology #Work (physics) #Ethnic group #Psychology #Medicine #Medical emergency #Political science #Engineering #Law
paper · doi:10.1177/1088767918754306
openalex publication_date 2018/01/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This article presents an analysis of occupational homicides of sex workers in the United Kingdom, 1990-2016. Characteristics of 110 people murdered between 1990 and 2016 are explored including the location of their murder, ethnicity, migration status, and gender. Key changes over time are noted including an increase in the number of sex workers murdered indoors as well as an increase in murdered migrant sex workers. By developing the concept of “occupational homicide,” we argue that sex worker homicide should be viewed as an occupational issue and that the distinction between work-related homicide and nonwork-related homicide should be accounted for in future studies and is essential to inform prostitution policy.