Pathways into Sexual Exploitation and Sex Work
The Experience of Victimhood and Agency
1st Edition
Published on 11. August 2015
X, 227 pages
978-1-137-43176-9 (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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
X, 227 p.
File size
2,00 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-43176-9 (9781137431769)
DOI
10.1057/9781137431769
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Jane Dodsworth
Pathways into Sexual Exploitation and Sex Work
The Experience of Victimhood and Agency
Book
08/2015
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
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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
