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Innovations in Criminal Justice Program: First Offender Prostitution Program Workshop

NCJ Number
175680
Date Published
1999
Length
800 pages
Annotation
This loose-leaf manual presents the agenda, background information, and program materials from a 1999 workshop that was sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and that focused on the interagency approaches used in San Francisco to reduce prostitution and prostitution-related offenses through services to prostitutes and their customers.
Abstract
The core components of the First Offender Prostitution Program (FOPP) in San Francisco are: (1) decoy operations to arrest customers of prostitutes; (2) the diversion of customers into appropriate educational programs; (3) services for prostitutes, funded partly by fines levied on customers; and (4) collaboration, which leads to public safety improvements that individual agencies cannot obtain. The FOPP partners include the San Francisco Police Department; the San Francisco District Attorney; the SAGE Project, Inc., an organization of survivors of abuse, prostitution, and trauma; communities within San Francisco; the public health system; the drug treatment system; and community-based service providers. FOPP represents a paradigm shift from solely criminal prosecution to prevention, early intervention, and rehabilitation of both customers and prostitutes. The program has the ability to achieve substantial reductions in criminal justice and public health costs while increasing community health and quality of life. The manual's sections present materials from other jurisdictions, FOPP program materials, discussions of the needs of prostitutes and customers, and information about specific services for each group. Other sections provide guidelines for building constituencies and engaging the media and present journal articles and reports about prostitution. Tables, figures, forms, and checklists