Quitting the Sex Trade
Why and How Pimps and Sex Workers Leave the Business
This anthology of original research studies focuses on why and how sex workers and pimps quit the sex trade. There is an extensive literature on 'desistance' with different theories explaining why people quit crime. However, with a few notable exceptions, researchers to date have not focused on desistance among pimps and sex workers. These studies explore a spectrum of quitting the sex trade from voluntarily stopping, 'drifting,' and retiring; to intervention-based or coerced stopping due to influences and impositions by programs and/or by specialized courts. This book provides insight into the meaning of this work; how people in the sex trad…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-00-034809-5
- EAN: 9781000348095
- Produktnummer: 36226321
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 150 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
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.
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