FASE IV: Comunicación de Resultados

In   the   previous   paragraphs,   an   attempt   was   made   to   reconstruct   the   belief   sets   of   the   most   important  actors  and  stakeholders  and  to  analyse  the  arguments  that  bolster  and  criticize  the   policy   theory   of   the   local   government.   The   beliefs   of   actors   and   stakeholders   within   and   outside  the  policy  subsystem  that  were  revealed  in  the  previous  paragraphs  of  this  section  are   summarized   below.   They   are   reduced   to   statements,   intended   to   express   the   essence   of   the   core   beliefs   per   actor   per   FF   level.   The   beliefs   that   could   not   be   typified   as   bolstering   or   criticizing,   or   that   did   not   seem   to   be   related   to   the   policy   as   such   are   placed   in   a   neutral   position.    This  scheme  also  has  the  function  of  summarizing  the  main  insights  delivered  by  this   section.      

Table  4.1:  bolstering  and  criticizing  beliefs    

Local  government  

FF  level   Bolstering   Criticizing  

TV   • More  and  better  signalling   • Temporarily  breaking  isolation   • Reducing  velocity  of  replacement   • Avoidance  of  extreme  working  hours  

• Trafficking  is  hard  to  measure   • Measures  don’t  see  to  have  reduced    

trafficking  yet    

SV   • More  regulation  is  needed   • Prostitutes  are  victimized  subjects  

SVi   • Legalisation  didn’t  stop  the  excesses!  

RC   • Let’s  build  barriers  everywhere!    

Police  

FF  level   Bolstering   Criticizing  

TV   • More  and  better  signalling  

• Our  time  and  capacity  are  limited   • We  experience  too  little  synergy  

• Registration  talks  will  not  reveal  trafficking  

SV   • Let’s  concentrate  more  on  the  

offenders  

• Negative  consequences  for  prostitutes   • Normalisation  of  prostitution  is  obstructed  

SVi     • Policy  should  be  harmonized  nationally  

• We  cannot  do  this  alone  

RC     • Victims  also  have  their  own  responsibilities  

Operator  

FF  level   Bolstering   Criticizing  

TV   • Measures  against  trafficking  are  important   • No  evidence,  evidence  can  be  confuted  

• Trafficking  doesn’t  happen  on  such  a  large  scale  in  

legal  prostitution  

• Prostitution  and  trafficking  move  underground  due  

to  this  policy  

• Policy  overlooks  power  of  traffickers   • Unused  expertise  

SV     • This  policy  is  counterproductive  

• Secret  agenda  local  government  

SVi     • Harmful  for  the  women  

• Barriers  against  prostitution  instead  of  traffickers   • Policy  targets  the  wrong  sector!  

• Policy  destroys  a  legal  business!   • Distortion  of  fair  competition!  

RC     • Government  should  not  interfere  in  private  business  

Prostitutes  

FF  level   Bolstering   Criticizing  

TV     • We  don’t  recognise  it,  it’s  not  all  that  bad  

• These  measures  are  easy  to  circumvent  and  will  not  

stop  traffickers  

• Camera  monitoring  doesn’t  reveal  trafficking   • Registration  is  redundant  

SV     • Policy  is  very  annoying  for  us  

• Policy  infringes  on  our  entrepreneurial  freedom   • Policy  is  directed  against  us  

SVi     • We  are  stigmatized  even  more  

RC     • Please  leave  us  alone  

• Let  us  do  our  job  

Social  &  healthcare  

FF  level   Bolstering   Criticizing  

TV     • The  barriers  are  not  insurmountable  

• This  is  a  doubtful  policy  

• Trafficking  is  too  complex  for  one-­‐hour  talks  

SV   • The  program  as  such  is  relevant   • Replacement  of  problems  

• Negative  impact  on  prostitutes   • Let’s  talk  to  the  women  

SVi     • Think  also  about  he  illegal  sector  

• This  is  an  international  problem  

• Struck  between  interests  of  (sharing  or  keeping  

information)  

RC     • Let’s  take  these  women  in  need  seriously  

Public  Prosecutor  

FF  level   Bolstering   Criticizing  

TV     • Trafficking  is  very  difficult  to  prove  

• Only  1%  of  signals  leads  to  conviction  of  traffickers   • Empowerment   and   prevention   are   deemed   more  

efficient  measures  

SV   • Unknown  incidence    

SVi   • Prosecution  is  the  last  resort  

RC    

Neighbours  

FF  level   Bolstering   Criticizing  

TV     • We  don’t  expect  too  much  form  the  policy  

SV   • We  would  like  to  avoid  trouble  

SVi    

Victims  

FF  level   Bolstering   Criticizing  

TV     • They  will  never  get  them  

• More  community  information  is  needed  

SV   • I  am  not  important  

• It  was  my  fault   • No  one  can  help  me  

SVi   • I  didn’t  see  another  opportunity  

RC   • I  trusted  and  loved  him  

Traffickers  

FF  level   Bolstering   Criticizing  

TV     •    They  will  not  catch  us  

SV   • The  girls  are  ours  

SVi   • They  didn’t  have  a  future  anyway  

• We  need  money  no  matter  the  consequences  

RC    

Clients  

FF  level   Bolstering   Criticizing  

TV     • I  don’t  see  it  happen  

SV   • I  don’t  do  anything  wrong  

• It  is  not  my  responsibility  to  stop  trafficking  

SVi   • Paid  sex  between  consenting  adults  is  okay  

• I  have  the  right  to  have  pleasure  

RC    

An  interpretation  of  these  statements  with  help  of  the  archetypical  mental  maps  (which  were   constructed  in  section  2.4)  will  follow  in  the  next  and  final  paragraph  of  this  chapter.    In  this   section  also  an  attempt  will  be  made  to  explain  some  of  the  relations  between  these  different   beliefs,  and  will  conclude  with  a  reflection  on  the  ideological  stances  that  are  revealed,  and  the   potential  conflicts  they  might  lead  to.    

4.3.7   Reflection  and  interpretation    

“How   people   make   a   living   is   central   to   their   lives.   Social   scientists   generally   assume   that   it   is   needs  and  ends  that  constrain  behaviour.  This  is  not  the  case.  Needs  and  resources,  we  insist,  are   socially   constructed.   The   conceptions   of   needs   and   resources   are,   in   effect,   supplied   to   the   members   of   a   way   of   live,   thereby   enabling   them   to   justify   that   way   of   life”   (Thompson,   Ellis   &   Wildavsky,  1990).    

The   expressions   as   formulated   at   the   end   of   the   previous   section   are   simplifications.   Nevertheless  it  becomes  clear  that  they  express  different  realities,  which  are  not  related  very   harmoniously,   not   to   say   at   odds   with   each   other.   They   will   now   be   confronted   with   archetypical  mental  maps  as  elaborated  and  depicted  in  chapter  2  (figure  2.4).  To  start  off,  the   actors   and   stakeholders   of   the   case   are   proposed   to   fit   as   follows   into   the   main   cultural   theoretical  archetypes  (figure  4.1).