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Classical Liberal Position
client profiling
Det Officer
deviant behaviour studies
Dysfunctional Family Backgrounds
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Folk Devil Status
Fraud Squad Officers
Glue Sniffing
Kerb Crawler
Kerb Crawling
law enforcement interactions
Lower Class Prostitutes
Missing Person Enquiries
occupational sociology
Occupational Solidarity
Persistent Truancy
Police National Computer
Prostitution Business
Prostitution Offences
qualitative interviews
Red Light District
Regular Clients
sex work research
Specific Life Events
SPG
Street Prostitution
street prostitution case study
Toleration Zones
Vice Squad
Victim Liaison Officers
Product details
- ISBN 9781840143133
- Weight: 416g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 18 Feb 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Based on extensive interviews with forty women working as prostitutes, Red Light, Blue Light examines a variety of personal developmental experiences and socio-situational factors that can combine to make prostitution neither an inevitable nor inescapable circumstance but a rational occupational choice. This book attempts to analyze why women enter the world of prostitution, how the skills and values of the business are transmitted and how the individuals themselves subjectively define, perceive and rationalise their activity. As opposed to the traditional stereotypical depiction of prostitutes as hopeless, downtrodden victims of male exploitation living lives of poverty, misery and wretchedness, the picture that emerges in this study is of an independent occupational group organizing and controlling the business in which they work. The book also presents a profile of clients of prostitutes and discusses the role of the police. Written in accessible style, the resulting monograph presents a fascinating, unique and comprehensive account of street prostitution in a northern city.
Karen Sharpe, University of Hull, UK
