Quitting the Sex Trade

ISBN-13: 9780367695279 / Miękka / 2023 / 142 str.

Opis

This anthology of original research studies focuses on why and how sex workers and pimps quit the sex trade.

Spis treści

Introduction: Quitting the Sex Trade: Keeping Narratives inside the Debates on Prostitution Policy and Legislation

Amber Horning

1. A Safe Harbor Is Temporary Shelter, Not A Pathway Forward: How Court-Mandated Sex Trafficking Intervention Fails to Help Girls Quit the Sex Trade

Misty Luminais, Rachel Lovell and Margaret McGuire

2. Harlem Pimps’ Reflections on Quitting: External and Internal Reasons

Amber Horning, Lyndsay Thompson and Christopher Thomas

3. The Recursive Relationship between Substance Abuse, Prostitution, and Incarceration: Voices from a Long-Term Cohort of Women

Ronet Bachman, Samantha Rodriguez, Erin M. Kerrison and Chrysanthi Leon

4. Uncovering Intentions to Exit Prostitution: Findings from a Qualitative Study

Andrea N. Cimino

5. "It’s like Being an Electrician, You’re Gonna Get Shocked": Differences in the Perceived Risks of Indoor and Outdoor Sex Work and Its Impact on Exiting

Kathleen Preble, Karen Magruder and Andrea N. Cimino

6. Self-Narratives of Persistent Pimps and Those Anticipating Desistance: Emotions, Conventional Work, and Moral Profitability Calculus

Loretta J. Stalans and Mary A. Finn

O autorze

Amber Horning is Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. For the last decade, they have researched commercial sex markets and human trafficking. Dr Horning has led one of the largest studies on sex market facilitators in the United States.