Introduction

This article provides insight into a rare instance of a collaborative governance approach to sex work that led to the decriminalisation, design and implementation of the sex work policy governance framework in New Zealand with the Prostitution Reform Act 2003.

Methods

Drawing on a sample of 17 interviews conducted between the years 2012 and 2019 in addition to associated archival material originating from government and non-government sectors including sex worker representative organisations.

Results

It finds that non-sex workers’ endorsement for the decriminalisation of sex work was motivated by the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) and occurred primarily within a human rights and harm minimisation framework. But that during the lobbying and parliamentary process, amendments to the Bill emerged that contradicted the NZPC’s main goal which was for sex work to be recognised as a legitimate labour activity and for all sex workers to benefit from decriminalisation and policy reform.

Conclusions

As such, this article broadens the scope of analysis related to the sex worker rights movement by examining how and why sex workers and their allies came to communicate and act on the impetus for sex work law reform and how it affected policy outcomes.

Policy Implications

Those involved in collaborative governance sex work law reform projects could consider adopting Östegren’s typology of repressive, restrictive or integrative approaches to sex work law reform in negotiations that concern regulation and policies.

中文翻译：

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改变思想和改变法律：新西兰性工作者及其盟友如何塑造新西兰的非刑事化

介绍

本文提供了对性工作协作治理方法的罕见实例的见解，该方法导致新西兰通过 2003 年《卖淫改革法》对性工作政策治理框架进行非刑事化、设计和实施。

方法

除了来自政府和非政府部门（包括性工作者代表组织）的相关档案材料外，还抽取了 2012 年至 2019 年间进行的 17 次访谈样本。

结果

它发现，非性工作者对性工作非刑罪化的认可是由新西兰妓女集体（NZPC）推动的，主要发生在人权和伤害最小化框架内。但在游说和议会过程中，出现了对该法案的修正，这与 NZPC 的主要目标相矛盾，即承认性工作是一种合法的劳动活动，并让所有性工作者从非刑事化和政策改革中受益。

结论

因此，本文扩大了与性工作者权利运动相关的分析范围，考察了性工作者及其盟友如何以及为何来沟通和采取行动，推动性工作法改革，以及它如何影响政策结果。

政策影响

参与协作治理性工作法改革项目的人可以考虑在涉及监管和政策的谈判中采用 Östegren 的压制性、限制性或综合性方法来进行性工作法改革的类型学。