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.

List of contents

Introduction: Quitting the Sex Trade: Keeping Narratives inside the Debates on Prostitution Policy and Legislation
Amber Horning
1. A Safe Harbor Is Temporary Shelter, Not A Pathway Forward: How Court-Mandated Sex Trafficking Intervention Fails to Help Girls Quit the Sex Trade
Misty Luminais, Rachel Lovell and Margaret McGuire
2. Harlem Pimps’ Reflections on Quitting: External and Internal Reasons
Amber Horning, Lyndsay Thompson and Christopher Thomas
3. The Recursive Relationship between Substance Abuse, Prostitution, and Incarceration: Voices from a Long-Term Cohort of Women
Ronet Bachman, Samantha Rodriguez, Erin M. Kerrison and Chrysanthi Leon
4. Uncovering Intentions to Exit Prostitution: Findings from a Qualitative Study
Andrea N. Cimino
5. "It’s like Being an Electrician, You’re Gonna Get Shocked": Differences in the Perceived Risks of Indoor and Outdoor Sex Work and Its Impact on Exiting
Kathleen Preble, Karen Magruder and Andrea N. Cimino
6. Self-Narratives of Persistent Pimps and Those Anticipating Desistance: Emotions, Conventional Work, and Moral Profitability Calculus
Loretta J. Stalans and Mary A. Finn

About the author

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.

Summary

This anthology of original research studies focuses on why and how sex workers and pimps quit the sex trade.

Product details

• Authors: Amber (University of Massachusetts Lowell Horning
• Assisted by: Amber Horning (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9780367695279
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69527-9
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Anthropology, TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Prostitution & Sex Trade, Organized crime, Legal aspects of criminology, Criminal justice law, Criminology: legal aspects