The Sex Industry and Crime:A Case Study in the Chung-Shan area,Taipei City

• Main Authors: wu.shan-lien, 吳山連
• Other Authors: 周愫嫻
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80205397940431355076

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 犯罪學研究所 === 94 === Abstract The purpose of the research was to examine the relationship between the sex industry and crime and to analyze to what extent current police measures can deter illegal activities within and around the sex industry. In order to achieve the goals, the study first, reviewed the literature on the history of the sex industry and police measures in the past 100 years; secondly, analysed official statistics in Taipei City to test the association of the sex industry and different types of crime rates; thirdly, interviewed key persons in the Chung-shan area, Taipei City, including senior community police officers, residences, local reporters, sex industry employers and sex workers to understand their perceptions of how the sex industry is related to crime; finally, the study proposed possible solutions to regulate the sex industry. The results indicate that (1) it is arguably the economic boom which has caused the growth of the sex industry rather than the other way around; (2) the sex industry is highly associated with organized criminals and gangsters; (3) gang activities, murders and assaults are perceived to be most related to the sex industry; (4) the sex business itself usually causes minor but very disturbing problems in the neighborhood such as noise, fighting after drinking and traffic jams; (5) most interviewees who lived in the sex industry neighborhood do not oppose the business but would like city government to set up a “red-light zone” under some regulations and police supervision in order to produce a working environment which is safe, hygienic, and with traffic and noise controls. The present study suggests that the experience in Macau where the sex industry and gambling are legal, taxed and highly regulated can be considered as a possible management model to control the sex industry in Taipei city. In addition, it may be more strategic for police forces to target gangster-related violent crimes linked to the sex industry, rather than simply mounting a ‘war on the sex industry’ itself.