Abstract
This paper examines recent legislative developments in Northern Ireland around Lord Morrow’s
Human Trafficking & Exploitation (Further Provisions and Support for Victims) Bill
that was passed unanimously in the Northern Ireland Assembly and which uniquely in the United Kingdom now makes it a criminal offence to pay for sexual services. I suggest that issues around sex trafficking, sexual slavery and prostitution in Northern Ireland bear all the hallmarks of Stan Cohen’s famous articulation of a moral panic (Cohen 1972) but also argue that his original for- mulation needs to be recast slightly to take account of the horizontal structuring of moral panics in contemporary society.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 194-214 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | British Journal of Criminology |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 28 Sept 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2017 |
Keywords
- prositution, sex trafficking, christian right, feminism, moral panics
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- Criminalising the payment for sex in northern ireland; sketching the contours of a moral panic
© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in The British Journal of Criminology following peer review. The version of record Ellison, G 2015, 'Criminalising the payment for sex in northern ireland; sketching the contours of a moral panic' British Journal of Criminology, is available online at:http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/09/27/bjc.azv107
