Role-taking As An Advocacy Strategy For Policy Reform

In major U.S. cities and in many nations globally, sex work is a criminal activity and the active status of the condoms as evidence of prostitution policy allows law enforcement to treat condoms as contraband (Shields, 2012). Advocacy groups internationally are actively petitioning to repeal the condoms-as-evidence policy. Using this international issue as the subject matter, this study evaluates the effectiveness of using games as an advocacy tool for policy reform in comparison to written reports and addresses the need for more quantitative research supporting the use of advocacy games.