Pathways into Sexual Exploitation and Sex Work
The Experience of Victimhood and Agency
Published on 17. August 2015
Book
Hardback
X, 227 pages
978-1-137-43175-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book identifies risk and protective factors influencing routes into, through and out of sexual exploitation and sex work. It explores how the sense made of key childhood and adult experiences influences the ability to manage roles and identities and choices they feel empowered or forced to make.
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Edition
2015 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
X, 227 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-43175-2 (9781137431752)
DOI
10.1057/9781137431769
Schweitzer Classification
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Jane Dodsworth
Pathways into Sexual Exploitation and Sex Work
The Experience of Victimhood and Agency
E-Book
08/2015
1st Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€96.29
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Jane Dodsworth
Pathways Into Sexual Exploitation and Sex Work
The Experience of Victimhood and Agency
Book
01/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Jane Dodsworth is Director of the BA in Social Work in the School of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her current research interests are in child sexual exploitation, risk and protective factors and issues of victimhood and agency for those involved in sexual exploitation and sex work and in sex workers as mothers. She is a member of the National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People and a member of an LSCB Child Sexual Exploitation Sub-Group.
Content
1. Introduction PART I: PATHWAYS THROUGH SEX WORK: HISTORICAL, LEGISLATIVE AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 2. Selling Sex: An Historical, Legislative and Policy Perspective 3. Routes Into Sex Work: Who, Why and How? 4. Managing Involvement In Selling Sex: Staying, Leaving, Surviving PART II: PATHWAYS THROUGH SEX WORK: EXPERIENCES OF VICTIMHOOD AND AGENCY 5. Managing the Coexistence of Roles and Identities 6. Group One: 'Who I Am' 7. Group Two: 'What I Do' 8. Group Three: 'Not For Me' 9. Resilience and Agency