Nordic Model
Definition
A sex-work regulation approach, first enacted in Sweden, that criminalises the buyer of sex while decriminalising the seller.
Related terms
- Decriminalisation
- The formal removal of conduct from the category of offence, here applied to the movement away from treating status conduct as court...
- Harm Principle
- The idea, associated with John Stuart Mill, that the only legitimate ground for the state to restrict a person's conduct through law...
- Moral Regulation
- The use of law to enforce a shared standard of conduct or virtue, independent of any measurable harm to a third party.
- Vagrancy Law
- Legislation that criminalises being without a fixed residence, visible means of support or, in some versions, the act of begging in public.
- Victimless Crime
- An offence where the conduct is consensual or self-directed and no unwilling third party suffers a direct, provable harm.