Ethical and Human Rights Issues in Coercive Interventions With Sex Workers

Wahab, Shagufta; Panichelli, Meg

doi:10.1177/0886109913505043

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“…For various reasons, social work research and education in the United States has been minimally concerned with issues of sex work, although this has been changing in recent years (Bromfield, 2016;Wahab, 2002Wahab, , 2006Wahab & Panichelli, 2013). The focus in social work continues to remain with issues of human trafficking, which some social workers conflate with consensual sex work (Bromfield, 2016).…”

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Anasti

2018

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Regardless of primary population served, human service organizations are likely to come into contact with individuals who have been currently or formerly involved in the sex trade. In the United States, social workers have had a fraught history with this population, either treating them like delinquents or like victims in need of rescue. Sex worker activists in the United States continue to decry the negative treatment provided by individuals in the helping professions, even as harm reduction, the practice of reducing the harm of risky behaviors, has entered the service provision lexicon as an antidote to abstinence-only services. This article uses qualitative interviews with managers of human service organizations in the city of Chicago to determine how they think about their work with sex workers and how they perceive the proposed solutions to "fixing" the sex trade: abolitionism and decriminalization. Findings show that despite the dominant discourse of abolitionism in the United States, most of managers in this project believe full decriminalization of sex work will best assist their sex worker clients. Future research needs to understand how this finding holds in different settings and how this affects current efforts to advocate for decriminalization.

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“…On the one hand, university teaching staff engaged in research and the training of future social workers can obtain first-hand knowledge of a specific area of investigation. On the other, it gives social workers an opportunity to strengthen the educational dimension of their work, and to systemise and reflect upon their practice, thus improving the service they perform and transferring their most valuable contributions to other associations and other contexts (Kemmis & McTaggart, 2000;Schön 1983;Trevithick, 2000;Wahab & Panichelli, 2013). This point of view holds that an increasingly more fluid relationship between research and social work practice will allow us all to progress in what we do and improve the quality of life of the women at the heart of this article.…”

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Social work and prostitution: an approach to educational practices

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European Journal of Social Work

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“…Conversely, sex positivists argue that adults have the right to choose whether and how to sell sex as a form of employment or as a career. While most acknowledge that sex trafficking can occur in some cases, sex trading broadly is viewed as either exploitative and oppressive, or an act that can also occur free of exploitation (Lloyd, 2011; McCarthy et al, 2014; S.W.O.P., 2019; Wahab & Panichelli, 2013; Weitzer, 2014). Importantly, whether and how women’s viewpoints of their own sex trading impact their access to and engagement with social services remains understudied.…”

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How Adult Women Who Trade Sex Navigate Social Services: A Grounded Theory Study

Gerassi

2019

Feminist Criminology

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Access to and engagement with social services among women who trade sex is essential to address issues including substance use, posttraumatic stress disorder, and housing instability. This grounded theory study aims to understand how adult women who trade sex accessed and engaged with social services. Drawing from semistructured, in-depth interviews with 30 mostly Black and White women, results suggest that women’s differing viewpoints of sex trading and experiences of racial prejudice impacted their access and engagement with services. Women’s experiences ranged from affirmed to disrespected, which influenced whether and how they chose to continue seeking services. Implications are discussed.

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Ethical and Human Rights Issues in Coercive Interventions With Sex Workers

Cited by 66 publications

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