Next, let’s review the numbers of female arrests for
*disorderly conduct over 32 years from 1981 to 2012:
FEMALE ARRESTS DISORDERLY CONDUCT OVER A 30 YEAR PERIOD 1981- 2012: (*not all arrests for
D.C. were instead of a prostitution arrest, but we suspect that many of them are, particularly where the prostitution laws are not as vague as
they are in California and it takes more effort to prove a 'solicitation' or 'intent to commit' prostitution )
Female arrests disorderly conduct all 1981- 2012: 4,828,643
of this number, 1,309,448 were under 18 27.12%
Still have a majority of female arrests for
disorderly conduct over age 25...
and 3,519,197 were over 18 72.88%
We do not have any way to know how many of
Of those under 18, numbers are:
these arrests were instead of prostitution
◦ age 17:
236,300
solicitation. Nevertheless we can conclude that
◦ age 16:
270,295
the statement that the “average age of entry into
◦ age 15:
283,678
prostitution is 12/ 13/14”
◦ age 13-14:
401,44
IS NOT TRUE!
◦ age 10-12:
107,480
◦ age under 10:
10,244
• Of those over 18, the majority were ages 25+ :2,918,587 (60.44%)
• age 18- 20:
600,617
• ages 21 to 24:
734,589
The number of males arrested for prostitution
• ages 25- 29:
665,691
and disorderly conduct can be found on our site.
• age 30- 65+ were: 1,518,307
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