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10%OFFSusan Dewey - Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution - 9781479841943 - V9781479841943
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Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution

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Description for Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMX; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.

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.
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Product Details

Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479841943
SKU
V9781479841943
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99-50

About Susan Dewey
Susan Dewey is Associate Professor of Gender and Social Justice at University of Wyoming and author of Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution (NYUP 2017). Tonia St. Germain, JD, is retired Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, Eastern Oregon University. She is the co-editor, with Susan Dewey, of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: International ... Read more

Reviews for Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution
This significant ethnographic study of women in the sex trade and those they interact with who seek to restrain their business or help them live more healthful lives is a compelling account that takes readers into a little-understood area of society.
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This is perhaps the most insightful ethnographic book on women in the street-based sex trade published ... Read more

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