Understanding the Experiences of Street Level Prostitutes

Williamson, Celia; Folaron, Gail

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“…Other risk factors include parental drug and alcohol use (Clarke, Clarke, Roe-Sepowitz, & Fey, 2012;Nadon, Koverola, & Shudlermann, 1998), domestic violence within the home (Dalla, 2003), poverty (Clawson, et al, 2009), and running away from home (Roe-Sepowitz, 2012;Simons & Whitbeck, 1991). Upon running away, minors become vulnerable to engaging in sex work as a means to meet needs (Greene, Ennett, & Ringwalt, 1999;Williamson & Folaron, 2003) such as food and shelter. If the adolescent is addicted to drugs, sex work may be a means to support the addiction (Hwang & Bedford, 2004;Potterat, et al, 1998).…”

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Putting the Pieces Back Together: A Group Intervention for Sexually Exploited Adolescent Girls

Hickle

Roe‐Sepowitz

2014

Social Work with Groups

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Article (Unspecified) http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Hickle, Kristine E and Roe-Sepowitz, Dominique E (2014) Putting the pieces back together: a group intervention for sexually exploited adolescent girls. Social Work With Groups, 37 (2). pp. [99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113] This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/49718/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and reuse:Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University.Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. Running head: PUTTING THE PIECES BACK TOGETHER Putting the Pieces Back Together: A Group Intervention for SexuallyExploited Adolescent Girls KRISTINE E. HICKLE and DOMINIQUE E. ROE-SEPOWITZ Arizona State University, School of Social Work, Phoenix, AZ, USA Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) is an emerging problem affecting adolescents, families, and communities throughout the United States. Despite a growing awareness of the problem, information regarding treatment is limited. This paper describes a pilot group intervention created for use with DMST victims, focusing specifically on areas that were critical to the development and life of the group: 1) providing education about DMST, 2) reducing shame and addressing stigma, 3) mutual aid, and 4) managing strong emotions through the development of new coping skills. Process examples are given to illustrate this pilot intervention, and recommendations for research and practice are discussed.

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Putting the Pieces Back Together: A Group Intervention for Sexually Exploited Adolescent Girls

Hickle

Roe‐Sepowitz

2014

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“…Si les résultats convergent avec les travaux antérieurs quant à la fin d'une relation amoureuse ou avec un proxénète (Williamson et Folaron, 2003) ainsi qu'à l'arrêt de la consommation de drogues (Bertrand et Nadeau, 2006), cette étude montre également que la sortie d'un gang de rue et le recours à d'autres stratégies de survie, telles que l'assistance sociale et les services offerts dans les ressources d'hébergement, conduisent les jeunes femmes à rompre avec la prostitution en situation de rue. La disponibilité d'autres stratégies semble venir réduire le caractère contraignant de la prostitution pour subvenir à leurs besoins, rejoignant ainsi certains travaux antérieurs (Weber et al, 2002;Tyler et Johnson, 2006;Watson, 2011).…”

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“…Selon certains travaux, la décision de sortir de la prostitution chez les femmes serait souvent motivée par certains événements-clés (Landau, 2000) ou points tournants (Mansson et Hedlin, 1999) de leur trajectoire individuelle, tels qu'une rupture avec un partenaire amoureux ou un proxénète (Williamson et Folaron, 2003), une rencontre significative avec un intervenant, un médecin ou un partenaire amoureux (Mansson et Hedlin, 1999;Landau, 2000) ou l'arrêt de la consommation de drogues (Bertrand et Nadeau, 2006). Les études de Dorais (1987) et de Baker et al (2010) font également voir que la décision de mettre fin à la prostitution est motivée par une prise de conscience de l'écart existant entre les résultats positifs anticipés par cette pratique et l'expérience souvent négative que les femmes rapportent vivre avec cette réalité.…”

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La prostitution en situation de rue

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Cette étude vise à décrire l’articulation entre les trajectoires d’entrée et de sortie de la prostitution chez les jeunes femmes en situation de rue, ainsi qu’à comparer les représentations de cette pratique entre les jeunes femmes qui y ont déjà eu recours et celles qui n’y ont jamais eu recours. Seize jeunes femmes en situation de rue, âgées de 18 à 25 ans, ont été rencontrées en entrevue individuelle semi-dirigée. En s’appuyant sur une méthodologie qualitative, deux groupes de jeunes femmes ont été comparés : l’un ayant eu recours à la prostitution (9/16) et l’autre n’y ayant jamais eu recours (7/16). Leurs témoignages mettent en relief le rôle cardinal de la précarité de la situation de rue et la nécessité de subvenir à des besoins jugés pressants. Cette précarité donne prise à l’influence d’autrui dans l’évolution de leurs représentations, rendant plus acceptable le recours à la prostitution aux yeux des jeunes femmes.

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“…Obtainers of sex industry Skills and knowledge helps to socialize women in the environment of prostitution (Williamson, Folaron, 2003). Acquired new skills helps woman engaged in the prostitution to survive in this environment and at the same time those women are bounded by a majority of their accepted values, norms, behaviour and actions.…”

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Psychosocial changes in the image of women engaged in prostitution

Smirnova

2012

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Abstract. This paper is aimed to show how engaging in sexual services affect psychosocial image of women. Investigating causes of women engagement in prostitution and the point of the problems women face daily life, it is possible to see psychosocial aspects changes when women take decision to offer sexual services. The author of the paper comes to the conclusion that for women who provide sexual services must be developed social services. Key words: prostitution, psychosocial changesWomen engaged in prostitution in society occupy a marginalized position. Women engaged in prostitution face social, economic and psychological difficulties. Analyzing women falling into prostitution, it is evident that the causes of female arrival at a sex business is a negative social environment, lack of education, different addictions, experience of violence, etc. The capacity of women engaged in prostitution to cope with various difficulties, such as, material problems, addictions, the ability to deal with violence against them etc. is different -from not developed capacity to solve their own problems to a level where the women learned emotionally and psychically function and survive in a new environment. Materials and methodsThe study was carried out in Riga where were made 10 semi-structured interviews with women who are engaged in prostitution and was analyzed research made in Vancouver (Canada) where were interviewed 100 women who are engaged in prostitution. Phases of women engaging in prostitutionFrequently, women who choose to enter prostitution decision are based on the purpose of financial boundaries. Woman is able to obtain material benefits for themselves and their families. Women realize their wishes and needs what could be satisfied by earned money in prostitution. At this stage women rationalizing her values, morals conflicting issues, to engage prostitution for money.In women's opinion the financial benefit for her family and material security is seen as survival strategy. Under age persons arguments entering prostitution are such as difficulties to find a work at this age and other reasons. Women who came from disadvantaged families see prostitution as a way to improve her financial situation. Offering sexual services women adopt this new way of life who have new rules in order to survive in this environment, as well as explore new values and skills to integrate into that environment.Dealing with prostitution women face with daily challenges -police raids, developing relationships with her clients, relationships with pimps, violence, concealing their activities from others (such as shame), dangerous client assessment, etc. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Understanding the Experiences of Street Level Prostitutes

Cited by 78 publications

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Putting the Pieces Back Together: A Group Intervention for Sexually Exploited Adolescent Girls

Putting the Pieces Back Together: A Group Intervention for Sexually Exploited Adolescent Girls

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