Sex workers globally face high levels of violence. In Canada, im/migrant sex workers who work in indoor venues may be uniquely targeted by police due to immigration policies, racialized policing, and the conflation of trafficking and sex work. In 2014, Canada passed end-demand legislation that purportedly encourages sex workers to report violence to police; however, little research has evaluated its impact. Using interrupted time series and multivariable logistic regression, we examined proportions of reporting violent incidents to police among sex workers who had experienced workplace violence (2010-2017), including potential changes prior to and following end-demand legislation. We then modeled the independent effects of im/migrant status and place of work on reporting violence. Among sex workers who experienced recent violence during the 7.5-year study (n=367), 38.2% of all participants and 12.7% of im/migrants reported violence to police, and there was no significant change in violence reporting after end-demand legislation. Our results suggest that end-demand laws do not remove barriers to justice faced by sex workers and instead actually perpetuate harms, particularly for racialized im/migrant and indoor workers. Policy reforms to decriminalize sex work, address discriminatory policing, and promote access to safety and justice are urgently needed.

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:全球的性工作者面临高水平的暴力行为。在加拿大,由于移民政策,种族化警务以及人口贩运和性工作的结合,在室内场所工作的移民性工作者可能会成为警察的唯一目标。 2014年,加拿大通过了最终需求立法,据称鼓励性工作者向警察举报暴力;但是,很少有研究评估其影响。我们使用中断的时间序列和多变量Logistic回归,研究了经历过工作场所暴力(2010-2017年)的性工作者中向警察报告暴力事件的比例,包括最终需求立法前后的潜在变化。然后,我们模拟了移民身份和工作地点对举报暴力行为的独立影响。在7.5年的研究中,最近经历过暴力的性工作者(n = 367)中,有38.2%的参与者和12.7%的移民/移民向警察报告了暴力行为,在最终立法后,暴力行为报告没有显着变化。我们的研究结果表明,最终需求法律并没有消除性工作者面临的正义障碍,反而实际上使危害长期存在,特别是对于种族化的移民/移徙工人和室内工人。迫切需要进行政策改革,以使性工作合法化,解决歧视性警务并促进获得安全和正义的机会。

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