Lowman and others have argued that the prostitution that was eliminated from Finsbury Park must have been displaced elsewhere or that the research design was inadequate. However, all the available formal and informal evidence indicates that most of the Finsbury Park prostitutes were not working as prostitutes 3 years after the multi-agency intervention was implemented. A multi-agency approach has also been used successfully in other parts of England. The Finsbury Park research also indicated that both prostitutes and clients had a low level of commitment to prostitution, in contrast to findings in Merseyside, where most female prostitutes were found to be intravenous drug abusers. Finally, Lowman recommends a positive zoning policy, in which prostitution would be moved to designated areas. However, a more appropriate approach would be a negative zoning policy that removes prostitution from vulnerable neighborhoods and that also provides a normative framework within which to address the problem. 14 references