1st Edition
Red Light, Blue Light Prostitutes, Punters and the Police
By Karen Sharpe
Copyright 1998
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on extensive interviews with forty women working as prostitutes, Red Light, Blue Light examines a variety of personal developmental experiences and socio-situational factors that can combine to make prostitution neither an inevitable nor inescapable circumstance but a rational occupational choice. This book attempts to analyze why women enter the world of prostitution, how the skills and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The research methodology: theory, process and reality; The road to prostitution: developmental and motivating factors; The rules of the game: the business of the patch; Coping with the job; The criminality factor: drugs and crime; The punters; The police; The problem of prostitution; Summary and conclusions.
Biography
Karen Sharpe
’...interesting...many...could profit from examining Sharpe’s research design and her provocative conclusions.’ The Law and Politics Book Review
