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General Description of the Project
Law and order authorities have to collaborate across borders, including the German-Czech and German-Polish borders, in order to prevent and combat crimes committed in connection with the sex industry. Social scientists of Warsaw, Prague and Leipzig universities who are currently researching prostitution, trafficking and police work will analyse the conditions under which such administrative cooperation fails or succeeds.
According to first results, the mechanisms used hitherto – including the Tri-national Working Group, conjoined patrols, data exchange, consultations etc. – are only partially successful in combating the pertinent crimes (including trafficking, smuggling, procuration, violence, the sexual commercial exploitation of children, illegal restraint). This is partly the case because the administrative cultures are partially irreconcilable; the political, juridical, organisational and personal structures and modus operandi are incompatible. What needs to be done is to develop administrative techniques that a) correspond to the logics inherent in cross-border administration and b) are suitable in preventing or combating crime in connection with the sex industry.
In phase 1 of the project the deficits are analysed on the basis of interviews and organisational sociology. In Phase 2 the conditions are formulated under which cooperation between Polish, Czech and German authorities on different levels can function and be optimized. On a congress in April 2007, law and order officials, government and NGO representatives, experts and scientists will discuss the results of this 2-year project. The results of this workshop are to contribute to the resulting monograph, which is to be published in English, Polish, Czech and German. |
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