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

Author: R Barri Flowers
Publisher: Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2001.
Series: Contributions in criminology and penology, no. 54
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: R Barri Flowers
ISBN: 0313314926 9780313314926 0275973425 (PRAEGER 9780275973421 (PRAEGER
OCLC Number: 45582646
Description: xiv, 212 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Contributions in criminology and penology, no. 54
Responsibility: R. Barri Flowers.

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