Sharon S. Oselin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814785881
- eISBN:
- 9780814770726
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814785881.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This concluding chapter recapitulates the personal, social, economic, and legal challenges female street prostitutes face, which can hamper their efforts to leave the trade. Despite these obstacles, ...
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This concluding chapter recapitulates the personal, social, economic, and legal challenges female street prostitutes face, which can hamper their efforts to leave the trade. Despite these obstacles, countless women indeed venture to quit and some manage to remain out of the lifestyle for prolonged periods of time. The few empirical examinations of this transition shed light on the social-psychological factors that undergird it. For example, one study on female desisters found that religious transformations and children were catalysts for cognitive changes. In this regard, the book generates a model of leaving prostitution that considers the interplay between organizations and individuals a dynamic.Less
This concluding chapter recapitulates the personal, social, economic, and legal challenges female street prostitutes face, which can hamper their efforts to leave the trade. Despite these obstacles, countless women indeed venture to quit and some manage to remain out of the lifestyle for prolonged periods of time. The few empirical examinations of this transition shed light on the social-psychological factors that undergird it. For example, one study on female desisters found that religious transformations and children were catalysts for cognitive changes. In this regard, the book generates a model of leaving prostitution that considers the interplay between organizations and individuals a dynamic.
Sharon S. Oselin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814785881
- eISBN:
- 9780814770726
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814785881.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse, arrest and incarceration, drug addiction, and stigmatization, which ...
More
While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse, arrest and incarceration, drug addiction, and stigmatization, which stem from both their public visibility and their dangerous work settings. Exiting the trade can be a daunting task for street prostitutes; despite this, many do try at some point to leave sex work behind. Focusing on four different organizations based in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help prostitutes get off the streets, this book explores the difficulties, rewards, and public responses to female street prostitutes' transition out of sex work. The book illuminates their pathways into the trade and their experiences while in it, and the host of organizational, social, and individual factors that influence whether they are able to stop working as prostitutes altogether. The book also looks at organizations that aid street prostitutes, and assesses the techniques used to help these women develop self-esteem, healthy relationships with family and community, and workplace skills. The book paints a full picture of the difficulties these women face in moving away from sex work and the approaches that do and do not work to help them transform their lives. Further, it offers recommendations to help improve the quality of life for these women. The book provides an essential understanding of getting out and staying out of sex work.Less
While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse, arrest and incarceration, drug addiction, and stigmatization, which stem from both their public visibility and their dangerous work settings. Exiting the trade can be a daunting task for street prostitutes; despite this, many do try at some point to leave sex work behind. Focusing on four different organizations based in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help prostitutes get off the streets, this book explores the difficulties, rewards, and public responses to female street prostitutes' transition out of sex work. The book illuminates their pathways into the trade and their experiences while in it, and the host of organizational, social, and individual factors that influence whether they are able to stop working as prostitutes altogether. The book also looks at organizations that aid street prostitutes, and assesses the techniques used to help these women develop self-esteem, healthy relationships with family and community, and workplace skills. The book paints a full picture of the difficulties these women face in moving away from sex work and the approaches that do and do not work to help them transform their lives. Further, it offers recommendations to help improve the quality of life for these women. The book provides an essential understanding of getting out and staying out of sex work.
