Drawing on the most recent studies, this collection of articles assesses and evaluates current criminal justice responses, policies, and practices regarding sexual violence in the United States and Canada. Focusing on methodological and ideological issues, rape law reform, criminal justice responses, social contexts of sexual assault, and community responses, authors from the fields of sociology, criminal justice, law, counseling, anthropology, biology, and psychology provide detailed studies of the problems and challenges involved in this very sensitive and important issue. The broad...
Drawing on the most recent studies, this collection of articles assesses and evaluates current criminal justice responses, policies, and practices ...
This is a detailed and insightful enthnographic analysis of the underworld of adolescent female prostitution. James Hodgson combines observations of street action and interviews with prostitutes and their pimps to present a candid and shocking overview of a social problem that affects the lives of so many of society's most vulnerable citizens. Hodgson's study clearly exposes the manipulative and predatory victimisation of vulnerable teenage girls - many of them runaways from dysfunctional homes - and debunks the belief that prostitution is a victimless crime. His data also expose the...
This is a detailed and insightful enthnographic analysis of the underworld of adolescent female prostitution. James Hodgson combines observations of s...
