Cry for the Merseyside Model: Crimes Against People in Prostitution/Sex...
Reblogged from Ruth Jacobs: These very real women photographed above are dead. They were murdered, and most of their cases remain unsolved. Women in prostitution suffer higher rates of murder , higher...
View ArticleIn the Booth with Ruth - Kate, Escort
Reblogged from Ruth Jacobs: How do you feel about the police? Ambivalent, I suppose. In everyday life, were my car stolen I would contact them. If I saw someone committing a crime, I think I would...
View ArticleIn the Booth with Ruth - Jayne Rogers, Community Mental Health Team Leader
Reblogged from Ruth Jacobs: How do you feel about the police? I come from a perspective of working in mental health; there is a long history of women with mental health problems being violently...
View ArticleThe Merseyside model - to make all crimes against people in prostitution/sex...
Reblogged from Coventry Women's Voices: Guest Blog from Author and Charity and Human Rights Campaigner - Ruth Jacobs **Trigger Warning** From “Hate Crime, Harm Reduction & Social Inclusion:...
View ArticleIn the Booth with Ruth - Andrew Boff, Conservative Member of the London Assembly
Reblogged from Ruth Jacobs: From your research of the Metropolitan Police, can you tell me how they are dealing with crimes committed against people in prostitution/sex workers? Some police, and...
View ArticleIn the Booth with Ruth - Jackie Summerford, Mother of Bonnie Barratt Murdered...
Reblogged from Ruth Jacobs: How do you feel about the police? At the time of my daughter’s murder case, I didn’t get on with them. I didn’t get on with the liaison officer because when he came to tell...
View ArticleIn the Booth with Ruth - Maria, Prostitution Survivor
Reblogged from Ruth Jacobs: How do you feel about the police? I’m in two minds because as far as working girls go, they have no compassion. They don’t believe them. They think the girls and women put...
View ArticleHave a Blog or Website? This is How You Can Help with the Merseyside Model...
Reblogged from Ruth Jacobs: Please help us reach the 100,000 signatures required on the HM Government e-petition for the Merseyside hate crime model to be UK wide. The results will not only reduce rape...
View ArticleOnly in Merseyside, UK: Crimes Against People in Prostitution Are Being...
After Nyne: Ruth Jacobs is an author and activist, and After Nyne’s inaugural ‘Associate’. In this heartfelt article, she explains why the ‘Merseyside Model’ is already making a difference to the lives...
View ArticleIn the Booth with Ruth - Shelly Stoops, Interim Manager, SAFE Place...
Reblogged from Ruth Jacobs: How do you feel about the police? I greatly respect Merseyside Police for the way they have taken a pragmatic, human rights approach to sex workers and prioritise their...
View ArticleIn the Booth with Ruth - Rosie Campbell, Chair of UK Network of Sex Work...
Reblogged from Ruth Jacobs: From the perspective of your many years experience working with people in the sex trade, how do you view the police? From the research and policy work on sex work that I...
View ArticleIn the Booth with Ruth - Alex Bryce, Manager, National Ugly Mugs
Reblogged from Ruth Jacobs: How do you feel about the police? Well, not long before becoming the manager of the National Ugly Mugs (NUM) Scheme I had a particularly bad experience with the police. My...
View ArticleThe Merseyside Model Saves Lives – so why is it not being rolled out nationally?
Not making the hate crime approach the national standard for people in prostitution is a hate crime in itself while women are being beaten, raped and murdered as the state looks the other way... If a...
View ArticleStaying Safe: The Merseyside Model – Ruth Jacobs interviewed on Policing...
Published on Policing Today – 10 July 2013 In the first part of an exclusive interview, Policing Today talks to author and campaigner Ruth Jacobs about the efforts being made by the Service to keep sex...
View ArticleVictim-centred: The Merseyside Model – Ruth Jacobs interviewed on Policing...
Published on Policing Today - 8 August 2013 In the second part of an exclusive Policing Today interview, author and human rights campaigner Ruth Jacobs talks about human trafficking and the urgent...
View ArticleMy most in depth article arguing for the Merseyside model to be made UK wide...
Published on The F-Word – 19 August 2013 Most sex workers find it difficult to report rape or violence because of the stigma associated with prostitution. Ruth Jacobs argues for a model that treats...
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