Previst project; a Swiss campaing within the general population for crime prevention in sex work

<p>In this link, we share private pictures and videos from the campaign &quot;We don&#39;t buy a body but a service,&nbsp;part of a crime prevention program in the canton of Vaud (Switzerland). The campaign aimed to prevent antisocial behaviour towards prostitutes by encouraging population&#39;s more realistic view of the sex work and by minimising the excuses for crime -the neutralisation techniques as defined by Sykes &amp; Matza (1957).</p> <p>With the slogan &ldquo;we don&rsquo;t buy a body but a service&rdquo;, we installed a panel in the prostitution neighbourhood in Lausanne (the capital of the canton of Vaud). We also organised four artistic performances in the city centre and we advertised the campaign through interviews with the media.</p> <p>Although the impact of this campaign on the behaviour of the population is difficult to assess, we estimated that the number of local citizens reached is non- negligible. We suggest that sex workers should be encouraged to participate in further campaigns towards the general population as well as the academia should collaborate with practitioners for evaluating the impact of such projects.</p>