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Gangs and Girls

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Gangs and Girls is the first major piece of qualitative research specifically aimed at understanding and analyzing the involvement of street gangs in female juvenile prostitution. Organized around ...
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  • 15 July 2009
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They discuss how young men are drawn to gang life, how young girls become attracted and attached to the gang members who eventually sell them into prostitution, and why it is so hard to infiltrate and dismantle the distinct but interrelated worlds of the procurer, victim, and client. Rooted firmly in first person testimony, this research deepens our understanding of juvenile prostitution by identifying and exploring the types of motivations and circumstances that lead teenagers into prostitution rings.
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Price: $34.95
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication Date: 15 July 2009
ISBN: 9780773577626
Format: eBook
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General
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Michel Dorais has spent many years working with victims of sexual abuse and juvenile prostitution as a clinical social worker and is now a professor of social work at Laval University in Quebec City. He is the author of ten books dealing with sexuality.