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Women of the Street - How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution (Paperback)
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Women of the Street - How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution (Paperback)
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Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging
in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social
service workers who try to curtail it Working together every day,
the lives of sex workers, police officers, public defenders, and
social service providers are profoundly intertwined, yet their
relationships are often adversarial and rooted in fundamentally
false assumptions. The criminal justice-social services alliance
operates on the general belief that the women they police and
otherwise regulate choose sex work as a result of traumatization,
rather than acknowledging the fact that socioeconomic realities
often inform their choices. Drawing on extraordinarily rich
ethnographic research, including interviews with over one hundred
street-involved women and dozens of criminal justice and social
service professionals, Women of the Street argues that despite the
intimate knowledge these groups have about each other, measures
designed to help these women consistently fail because they do not
take into account false assumptions about street life,
homelessness, drug use and sex trading. Reaching beyond
disciplinary silos by combining the analysis of an anthropologist
and a legal scholar, the book offers an evidence-based argument for
the decriminalization of prostitution.
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