Is Child to Adult as Victim is to Criminal?
| Autor: | Anthony Marcus, Efram Thompson, Sarah Rivera, Ric Curtis, Robert Riggs, Amber Horning |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Health (social science)
Sociology and Political Science Social network Sex trafficking business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Commercial sexual exploitation of children Poison control Criminology Gender Studies Law Narrative Sociology business Diversity (politics) media_common Sex work Social policy |
| Zdroj: | Sexuality Research and Social Policy. 9:153-166 |
| ISSN: | 1553-6610 1868-9884 |
| Popis: | Longstanding policy debates over how prostitution/sex work should be thought about and responded to have been upended in the USA by a growing tendency to conflate the practice with sex trafficking. US law and social policy have converged most fully on this issue in a movement to eradicate what has come to be known as the commercial sexual exploitation of children. One outcome of this movement has been an expanded focus on prosecuting and imprisoning pimps and other legal adults who support or abet juridical minors involved in the sex trade. This paper will show that the simplistic, one-size-fits-all narrative of the child victim and the adult exploiter inherent in this policy does not reflect the realities of street-based sex work in the USA. After 2 years of ethnographic and social network research in two cities, we find that sex market-involved young people participate in a great diversity of market–facilitation relationships, many of which provide the only or the most crucial foundation for their support networks. A social policy based on a one-dimensional construction of the child victim and the adult exploiter not only endangers these crucial relationships but also disappears the real needs of young people involved in the exchange of sex for money. |
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