1st Edition
Quitting the Sex Trade Why and How Pimps and Sex Workers Leave the Business
Introduction: Quitting the Sex Trade: Keeping Narratives inside the Debates on Prostitution Policy and Legislation
Amber Horning
1. A Safe Harbor Is Temporary Shelter, Not A Pathway Forward: How Court-Mandated Sex Trafficking Intervention Fails to Help Girls Quit the Sex Trade
Misty Luminais, Rachel Lovell and Margaret McGuire
2. Harlem Pimps’ Reflections on Quitting: External and Internal Reasons
Amber Horning, Lyndsay Thompson and Christopher Thomas
3. The Recursive Relationship between Substance Abuse, Prostitution, and Incarceration: Voices from a Long-Term Cohort of Women
Ronet Bachman, Samantha Rodriguez, Erin M. Kerrison and Chrysanthi Leon
4. Uncovering Intentions to Exit Prostitution: Findings from a Qualitative Study
Andrea N. Cimino
5. "It’s like Being an Electrician, You’re Gonna Get Shocked": Differences in the Perceived Risks of Indoor and Outdoor Sex Work and Its Impact on Exiting
Kathleen Preble, Karen Magruder and Andrea N. Cimino
6. Self-Narratives of Persistent Pimps and Those Anticipating Desistance: Emotions, Conventional Work, and Moral Profitability Calculus
Loretta J. Stalans and Mary A. Finn
Biography
Amber Horning is Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. For the last decade, they have researched commercial sex markets and human trafficking. Dr Horning has led one of the largest studies on sex market facilitators in the United States.
