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This volume presents a unique examination of Western-led police reform efforts by theoretically linking neoliberal globalization, police reform and development. The authors present seven country case studies based on this theoretical and conceptual approach and assess the prospects for successful police reform in a global context.

This article is based on a qualitative study of male street-based prostitution. It suggests that the street-based sector is more varied, with sellers adopting a wider range of working practices, than is commonly acknowledged in the literature on male prostitution. Drawing on data from Manchester, England, I identify a number of 'life patterns' among male street sellers that reflect varied working practices based on issues around rational decision-making and the sex worker's relationship to place and environment. The discussion has implications for urban policies around street-based sex work but also for a more general understanding of male sex work in an international and comparative perspective.

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.

This chapter describes my experiences of conducting research on commercial sex in Belfast, Northern Ireland which was conducted as part of a larger British Academy – Leverhulme Trust funded study that examined the policing and legal regulation of commercial sex in Belfast (Northern Ireland) along with three other cities: Manchester (England), Berlin (Germany) and Prague (Czech Republic). This study provided the first empirical analysis of commercial sex in the jurisdiction and was instrumental in shedding light on prevalence rates for those involved in the industry as well as providing demographic information on the age, nationality and sexual orientation of sex workers along with the sector worked in, whether on-street or off-street. In the chapter I consider my role as a researcher and highlight some of the difficulties that I experienced conducting what was seen as controversial research in the politically, socially and culturally conservative context of Northern Ireland.

I would like to thank the Committee for the opportunity to provide written evidence in respect of the above Bill. I am a Reader in Criminology in the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast where I have taught and researched for the past decade. My principal research interests over the years have concerned policing and its governance, but also how particular social problems can best be regulated by law enforcement and other officials in terms of a broader harm reduction strategy. To this end I am currently principal investigator on a project funded by the British Academy to investigate the policing and regulation of male and female prostitution in four cities where the regulatory framework differs significantly. The cities in the study are Belfast, Manchester, Prague and Berlin. The project has a number of aims but one of these is to assess the regulatory models in these cities in light of sex purchase legislation that exists in some of the Nordic countries, of which the so-called 'Swedish model' is perhaps the best known.

1. Introduction : turning over the pebble -- 2. The state of the police of the state -- 3. Smoke and mirrors : the cuts in policing and the technological fix -- 4. Commodifying state policing : the export of the 'UK Police plc' brand -- 5. Policing the other through law -- 6. Policing the other : continuity of practice from St. Giles to Dale Farm.

Under what conditions does successful police reform take place? Can democratic forms of policing exist within undemocratic state structures? What are the motives of donor and recipient nations, and can the norms of global civil society be cultivated in order to promote human rights, democratic governance, and fair and accountable policing? These questions are addressed in this volume, which presents a unique examination of Western-led police reform efforts by theoretically linking neoliberal globalization, police reform and development. The authors present seven country case studies based on this theoretical approach (Afghanistan, Brazil, Iraq, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turkey) and assess the prospects for successful police reform in a global context.