Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution

Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service workers who try to curtail it

Working together every day, the lives of sex workers, police officers, public defenders, and social service providers are profoundly intertwined, yet their relationships are often adversarial and rooted in fundamentally false assumptions. The criminal justice-social services alliance operates on the general belief that the ...