Ronald Weitzer published a 1999 article evaluating US policies as well as a 2009 study of prostitution in Western Australia, whose state legislature voted to legalize brothel and escort prostitution in 2008.
11 Facts About Ronald Weitzer
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One of Ronald Weitzer's objectives is to assess which kinds of regulations are most sensible, most likely to win public support, best suited to reducing risks and harms, and most likely to preserve public order.
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Ronald Weitzer holds that these kinds of activities typically have little effect on the surrounding community and that enforcing laws against such practices involves time-consuming sting operations that waste police resources.
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Ronald Weitzer argues that this two track approach reflects public preferences regarding the proper focus of law enforcement, is a more efficient use of law enforcement resources, and is guided by the principle of harm reduction.
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Ronald Weitzer argues against what he views as the demonization of customers in anti-prostitution arguments.
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Ronald Weitzer further argues that prostitution abolitionists are largely motivated by ideology, generally radical feminism or Christian right views, and this ideologically driven view taints research and statistics about prostitution and trafficking offered by researchers and groups that advocate this position.
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Ronald Weitzer has been particularly critical of the claims of anti-prostitution writers such as Janice Raymond, Donna M Hughes, and Melissa Farley for such reasons.
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Ronald Weitzer has done research on police-minority relations in Israel, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and the United States, including studies of racial profiling and police misconduct and racially biased policing.
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Ronald Weitzer's research has used multiple research methods including quantitative surveys of the public, in-depth interviews, archival research, and systematic observations of police-citizen interactions at "community policing" meetings.
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Recently, Ronald Weitzer has analyzed survey data on Arabs and Jews opinions of the Israel Police.
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Ronald Weitzer's research was published in a groundbreaking 1984 article titled "In Search of Regime Security: Zimbabwe since Independence" in the Journal of Modern African Studies and in his book, Transforming Settler States: Communal Conflict and Internal Security in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe.