Citation

Baker LM, Dalla RL, Williamson C. Violence Against Women 2010; 16(5): 579-600.

Affiliation

School of Library and Information Science, Wayne State University,106 Kresge, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. aa0838@wayne.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801210367643

PMID

20388932

Abstract

Exiting street-level prostitution is a complex, convoluted process. Few studies have described this process within any formal conceptual framework. This article reviews two general models and two prostitution-specific models and their applicability to the exiting process. Barriers encountered as women attempt to leave the streets are identified. Based on the four models, the barriers, the prostitution literature, and the authors' experience with prostituted women, a new integrated six-stage model that is comprehensive in scope and sensitive to women's attempts to exit prostitution is offered as a foundation for continued research on the process of women leaving the streets.

Language: en