http://economics.uchicago.edu/pdf/Prostitution%205.pdf
Quite informative, actually. For example:
“… We estimate that prostitutes are officially arrested only once per 450 tricks, with johns arrested even less frequently. Punishment conditional on arrest is limited – roughly 1 in 10 prostitute arrests leads to a prison sentence, with a mean sentence length of 1.2 years among that group.5 For many johns, perhaps the greatest risk is the stigma that comes with having a mug shot posted on the Chicago Police Department web page. There is a surprisingly high prevalence of police officers demanding sex from prostitutes in return for avoiding arrest. For prostitutes who do not work with pimps (and thus are working the streets), roughly three percent of all their tricks are freebies given to police.”
Hello, you write “…is the stigma that comes with having a mug shot posted on the Chicago Police department wb page”.
Could you please quote me the exakt link?
I doubt that such a page exists in Chicago.
Thanks a lot in advance!
D.R.Imhof
Zurich
Switzerland
Douglas: The authors are probably referring to a sex-offender registry.
The point was that there is significant danger of your name being attached to a sex crime. Whether or not there’s a mug shot along with it is relatively immaterial.
I didn’t do the study, but that’s what I assume the authors meant.