Pathways into Sexual Exploitation and Sex Work: The Experience of Victimhood and Agency

Dodsworth, Jane

ISBN 10: 113743175X / ISBN 13: 9781137431752

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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227 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pathways into Sexual Exploitation and Sex Work: The Experience of Victimhood and Agency
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113743175X
• ISBN 13: 9781137431752
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.45 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book identifies risk and protective factors influencing routes into, through and out of sexual exploitation and sex work. It explores how the sense made of key childhood and adult experiences influences the ability to manage roles and identities and choices they feel empowered or forced to make.

About the Author

Jane Dodsworth is Director of the BA in Social Work in the School of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her current research interests are in child sexual exploitation, risk and protective factors and issues of victimhood and agency for those involved in sexual exploitation and sex work and in sex workers as mothers. She is a member of the National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People and a member of an LSCB Child Sexual Exploitation Sub-Group.