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Violence and sex work in Britain

Title: Violence and sex work in Britain / Hilary Kinnell.
Author: Kinnell, Hilary.
Publication: Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2008.

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Description

xxii, 290 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Violence and Sex Work in Britain explores violence and homicide in the context of sex work, showing how current law and repressive policing tactics exacerbate vulnerability. It describes the unique role of outreach projects in addressing violence against sex workers, analysing sex workers' own accounts of attacks. From these and other sources, it demonstrates that violence against sex workers rarely comes from paying clients, and highlights the risks imposed by criminalization. The phenomenon of community and institutional violence against sex workers is also explored, with a personal perspective on residents' actions to drive out street sex workers from Balsall Heath, Birmingham in the 1990s." "It analyses the characteristics and alleged motives of attackers and killers, based on research into prosecutions for non-fatal attacks and over 100 homicides of sex workers in Britain. The crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, Steve Wright and many other less notorious killers are investigated in relation to vulnerability, policy and policing issues." "It exposes inadequacies in the criminal justice system, leading to failures in investigations and prosecutions and failures to prevent violence from known offenders. It attacks the radical feminist ideology currently driving government policy, arguing that its stigmatization of sex workers' clients ignores sex workers' own experiences and testimony while colluding with policies that make sex work more dangerous."--Jacket

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-272) and index.

Contents

Peter Sutcliffe: a long shadow -- What is violence against sex workers? -- Inclusions and exclusions -- Provention, Ugly Mugs and the role of outreach projects -- Who attacks sex workers? -- Street sex work: the context of violence -- Street violence: individual and community aggression -- The cleansing of Balsall heath -- Indoor sex work: policy and policing -- Violence and indoor sex work -- Attackers: court cases -- Motives for violence -- Murder of sex workers -- Killers and suspects -- Multiple killers -- Steve Wright: a passing nightmare? -- Explanations and excuses -- Shutting the stable door -- Promoting violence.

ISBN

9781843923510
1843923513
9781843923503
1843923505

LCCN

2009275382

OCLC

ocn191927403
191927403
SCSB-14688940

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Princeton University Library