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008			170303s2016 nyua b 001 0 eng
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035			_a(Sirsi) i9781479854493
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050	0	0	_aHQ 314 _b.D49 2016
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100	1		_aDewey, Susan, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWomen of the street : _bhow the criminal justice-social services alliance fails women in prostitution / _cSusan Dewey and Tonia St. Germain.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew York University Press, _c2016
300			_aix, 275 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aWorkin' it, advocating, and getting things done -- Occupational risks -- Harm reduction and help seeking -- Discretion.
520			_aExplores 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. Drawing on extraordinarily rich ethnographic research, including interviews with over one hundred street-involved women and dozens of criminal justice and social service professionals, Women of the Street argues that despite the intimate knowledge these groups have about each other, measures designed to help these women consistently fail because they do not take into account false assumptions about street life, homelessness, drug use and sex trading. Reaching beyond disciplinary silos by combining the analysis of an anthropologist and a legal scholar, the book offers an evidence-based argument for the decriminalization of prostitution. -- Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aSocial work with prostitutes _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPolice social work _zUnited States.
650		0	_aProstitution.
650		0	_aProstitution _xLaw and legislation.
650		0	_aProstitution _xSocial aspects.
700	1		_aSt. Germain, Tonia _q(Tonia Prisca), _d1960- _eauthor.
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