Professor Alex Stevens:

It is a controversial area of criminology in which I am not expert and Ms Eastwood probably knows more than I do on that. There is an argument to be made that the criminalisation of the purchases of sexual services is more to do with the moral condemnation of the sex industry than it is to do with evidence that it is effective in reducing the harms of that industry. Indeed there seems to be some evidence that it increases the harms of that industry.