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    “I’m Doing Everything Right All Over Again”: How Women Manage Exiting Street Prostitution Over Time

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    Author
    Gesser, Nili
    Shdaimah, Corey S.
    Date
    2021-07-13
    Journal
    Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology
    Publisher
    PubPub
    Type
    Article
    
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    https://doi.org/10.21428/88de04a1.e639c1ce
    Abstract
    Exiting the criminalized sale of sex, which we refer to as prostitution, is a complex, recursive process which has been rarely studied longitudinally. Using typical case sampling, we selected two respondents from a two-year ethnographic study of a court-affiliated diversion program in Philadelphia who participated in a total of eight interviews. Saldaña’s (2009) seldom-used longitudinal coding method was applied to conduct a fine-grained analysis of participants’ perceptions of exiting prostitution over time, focusing on participants’ motivations and actions. Respondents managed expectations of others and themselves and their sense of self-worth within a context of changing relationships, structural opportunities, accomplishments and setbacks. Viewed in a longitudinal context, the same relationships and structural hurdles often had a different impact on women’s motivation to exit at different time points. We argue that a longitudinal perspective of the exiting process is critical to avoid erroneous binary classifications of women as either exiters or non-exiters from prostitution, as the exiting process is more complex than what cross-sectional studies have previously revealed. Findings have implications for researchers of prostitution and programs for women exiting prostitution that should structure supports and (dis)incentives in a nonjudgmental fashion in line with this nuanced understanding of exiting over time. This is particularly important in criminal justice settings, where punitive responses have serious short- and long-term consequences.
    Keyword
    Project Dawn Court (PDC)
    prostitution exit
    street prostitution
    Longitudinal method
    Qualitative research
    Prostitutes--Psychology
    Prostitutes--Rehabilitation
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10713/16832
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.21428/88de04a1.e639c1ce
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