| Description |
1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Prostitution Diversion Programs -- A New Paradigm or Business as Usual? -- 1: Prostitution Diversion: Criminalization, Individual Responsibility, and Rescue -- 2: Study Sites: PDPs in Baltimore and Philadelphia -- 3: Coercion and Choice -- 4: "I've Been Raped, I've Been Robbed, But I Could Have Been Killed": Intersections of Trauma, Substance Use Problems, and Prostitution in the Eyes of the Court -- 5: "I've [got] Hooker Court every month": Shame and Shaming in PDPs -- 6: Building, Rebuilding, and Surveilling Relationships: Social Connection in the Shadow of the Courts -- 7: Transformative or Conforming Practice?: Navigating the Possible -- 8: "Better than nothing"? -- Appendix A: Original Study Description -- Appendix B: "Looking Back, Looking Forward" Follow Up Study -- Appendix C: Project Dawn Court and Specialized Prostitution Diversion Participants -- Appendix D: Criminal Legal System Professionals |
| Summary |
"This book draws on interviews and observations from two court-affiliated prostitution diversion programs and a nonprofit agency following participants through court, prison, probation, programming, and returns to their lives. They compare the forces coercing women towards and away from sex work"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2023) |
| Subject |
Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation -- United States
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Prostitutes -- Services for -- United States
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Social work with prostitutes -- United States
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Prostitutes -- United States -- Case studies
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Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
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Courts of special jurisdiction -- United States
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Courts of special jurisdiction
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Prostitutes
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Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation
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Prostitutes -- Services for
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Social work with prostitutes
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leon, Chrysanthi S., author.
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Wiechelt, Shelly A., author.
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| LC no. |
2022053640 |
| ISBN |
1439922020 |
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9781439922026 |
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