Crime Reduction - Helping to Reduce Crime in Your Area

Arrest-referral is an intervention scheme that may reduce dependant drug use and drug related crime. Most documents on the subject have been concerned with the general population of people who have been arrested. This briefing, however, is concerned with a scheme that was targeted at sex workers who have been arrested.

The report presents the results of a 12 month study into the Capital Care Project, an innovative arrest-referral scheme in Kings Cross, London, tailored specifically to the need of drug dependant sex workers. The scheme referred female sex workers, often a hard-to-reach group of drug users, to a range of services with the aim of helping them to break the cycle of repeat offending and drug use.

The report gives a summary of the local situation in Kings Cross and give a number of good practice points that might be applied elsewhere with a positive effect.

Selling Sex in the city: as assessment of an arrest-referral scheme for sex workers in  Kings Cross PDF 504Kb