Purchasing Sexual Services in Sweden and
the Netherlands
In 2003 the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Police
Affairs launched a Plan of Action to
Combat Trafficking in Women and Children. One of the measures in the plan was the appointment of a working
group whose task would be to collect experiences which argued for and against
the criminalisation of the purchase of sexual services.
On 8 October 2004 the report on The Purchase of Sexual Services in Sweden and the Netherlands.
Regulation and Experiences. A Report from the Working Group on the Legal
Regulation of the Purchase of Sexual Services was handed over to the
Norwegian Minister of Justice and Police Affairs. The report is being published
in the Ministry of Justice and Police Affairs report series for the year 2004.
The Norwegian version of the report runs to 140 pages with 11
chapters. This English version of the report is a substantially abbreviated
version of the official report. Three chapters have been selected for
English-speaking readers: the original Chapter 3 on conditions in Sweden (here
Chapter 2); the original Chapter 4 on conditions in the Netherlands (here
Chapter 3) and the original summary Chapter 8 (here Chapter 4). This version
starts with a brief introduction to the group’s terms of reference and its
composition (here Chapter 1).
The English version has been edited by Ulf Stridbeck,
Professor of Law in the legal faculty in the University of Oslo who chaired by
Professor Ulf Stridbeck,
Purchasing Sexual
Services in Sweden and The Netherlands
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Plan
of Action to Combat Trafficking in Women and Children (2003-2005)
