Runaway kids and teenage prostitution : America's lost, abandoned, and sexually exploited children /
This concise and accessible new text examines the correlations between runaway children and teenage prostitution in the United States from a criminological, sociological, and psychological perspective. The author takes a systematic approach to defining and describing the differences between youth wh...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Westport, CT :
Greenwood Press,
2001.
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Colección: | Contributions in criminology and penology ;
no. 54. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART I: THE DYNAMICS OF RUNNING AWAY: The scope of runaway youth
- The extent of throwaway kids
- Runaways, arrest, and the police
- Why teens run away from home
- The perils for the teenage runaway
- Theoretical approaches to running away and teenage prostitution
- Policy, practice, and response to runaway and prostitution involved teens
- PART II: THE DYNAMICS OF TEENAGE PROSTITUTION: The nature of teenage prostitution
- Teen prostitutes, arrest, and the criminal justice system
- Girl prostitution
- The pimp's role in teenage prostitution
- Boy prostitution
- PART III: CORRELATES OF RUNNING AWAY AND TEENAGE PROSTITUTION: Child sexual abuse
- Child pornography
- PART IV: THE LAW AND COMBATING TEENAGE PROSTITUTION: Laws and the prostitution of teenagers
- PART V: RUNAWAY YOUTH AND PROSTITUTION TEENS IN OTHER COUNTRIES: Runaways and teenage prostitution globally.