Runaway kids and teenage prostitution : America's lost, abandoned, and sexually exploited children /

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Flowers, R. Barri (Ronald Barri)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2001.
Collection:Contributions in criminology and penology ; no. 54.
Sujets:
Runaway teenagers > United States.
Teenage prostitution > United States.
Adolescentes fugueuses > États-Unis.
Adolescents fugueurs > États-Unis.
Prostitution juvénile > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Runaway teenagers
Teenage prostitution
United States
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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