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dc.contributor.authorGesser, Nili
dc.contributor.authorShdaimah, Corey S.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-15T12:10:30Z
dc.date.available2021-10-15T12:10:30Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-13
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10713/16832
dc.description.abstractExiting 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.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.21428/88de04a1.e639c1ceen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPubPuben_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminologyen_US
dc.subjectProject Dawn Court (PDC)en_US
dc.subjectprostitution exiten_US
dc.subjectstreet prostitutionen_US
dc.subject.lcshLongitudinal methoden_US
dc.subject.lcshQualitative researchen_US
dc.subject.lcshProstitutes--Psychologyen_US
dc.subject.lcshProstitutes--Rehabilitationen_US
dc.title“I’m Doing Everything Right All Over Again”: How Women Manage Exiting Street Prostitution Over Timeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.21428/88de04a1.e639c1ce
dc.source.journaltitle2021 | Volume 10, Issue 4


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