Juvenile Prostitution and Mental Health: Policing Delinquency or Treating Pathology?.
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société
- Vol. 4, 77-98
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s082932010000154x
Abstract
Juvenile prostitution has been characterized alternatively as an expression of delinquency based on opportunity, and, as a form of pathological work chosen by adolescent victims of sexual abuse. Analysis of the trends in arrests for solicting in Canada suggest that the majority of persons arrested for soliciting are not juveniles. In addition, estimates of abuse in the background of prostitutes are extremely inconsistent. Questions are raised both about the relevance of the pathological model and the utility of treating soliciting as a crime.Keywords
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