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Maintaining family values? Cleansing the streets of sex advertising
Author(s) -
Hubbard Phil
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00092
Subject(s) - moral panic , legislation , space (punctuation) , public space , advertising , private space , sociology , criminal justice , order (exchange) , criminology , political science , sex work , public relations , law , business , engineering , architectural engineering , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , finance , family medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , publicity
The Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 makes it an offence to place an advertisement for sex work in public telephone boxes. In this paper, I discuss the background to this Act, exploring the reasons why the presence of sex advertising in a public space has provoked a classic piece of ‘moral panic’ legislation. Highlighting the role of this new legislation in policing the boundaries between public and private space, the paper thus engages with key debates in social and cultural geography concerning the maintenance of socio–spatial order.