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Pathways into Sexual Exploitation and Sex Work

The Experience of Victimhood and Agency

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  • © 2015

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  1. Jane Dodsworth

    1. University of East Anglia, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Jane Dodsworth
      Pages 1-10

  3. Pathways through Sex Work: Historical, Legislative and Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Selling Sex: A Historical, Legislative and Policy Perspective

      • Jane Dodsworth
      Pages 13-34

    3. Routes into Sex Work: Who, Why and How?

      • Jane Dodsworth
      Pages 35-50

    4. Managing Involvement in Selling Sex: Staying, Leaving, Surviving

      • Jane Dodsworth
      Pages 51-70

  4. Pathways through Sex Work: Experiences of Victimhood and Agency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Managing the Coexistence of Roles and Identities

      • Jane Dodsworth
      Pages 73-83

    3. Group One: ‘Who I Am’

      • Jane Dodsworth
      Pages 84-120

    4. Group Two: ‘What I Do’

      • Jane Dodsworth
      Pages 121-156

    5. Group Three: ‘Not for Me’

      • Jane Dodsworth
      Pages 157-193

    6. Resilience and Agency

      • Jane Dodsworth
      Pages 194-207

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 208-227
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About this book

This book identifies risk and protective factors influencing routes into, through and out of sexual exploitation and sex work. It explores how the sense made of key childhood and adult experiences influences the ability to manage roles and identities and choices they feel empowered or forced to make.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of East Anglia, UK

    Jane Dodsworth

About the author

Jane Dodsworth is Director of the BA in Social Work in the School of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her current research interests are in child sexual exploitation, risk and protective factors and issues of victimhood and agency for those involved in sexual exploitation and sex work and in sex workers as mothers. She is a member of the National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People and a member of an LSCB Child Sexual Exploitation Sub-Group.

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