Violence and Sex Work in Britain
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cullompton
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781843926887
Subjects: Prostitutes
Description: Violence and Sex Work in Britain' explores violence and homicide in the context of sex work, showing how current law and repressive policing tactics exacerbate vulnerability. It exposes inadequacies in the criminal justice system, leading to failures in investigations and prosecutions and failures to prevent violence from known offenders. It attacks the radical feminist ideology currently driving government policy, arguing that its stigmatization of sex workers' clients ignores sex workers' own experiences and testimony while colluding with policies that make sex work more dangerous.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title information; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Last Word; References; Index.