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The online version of the original article can be found at http://doi.dx.org/10.1007/s13178-011-0070-1.
Reports an error in "Is child to adult as victim is to criminal?: Social policy and street-based sex work in the USA" by Anthony Marcus, Robert Riggs, Amber Horning, Sarah Rivera, Ric Curtis and Efram Thompson (Sexuality Research & Social Policy: A Journal of the NSRC, 2012[Jun], Vol 9[2], 153-166). In the original article, the following text was inadvertently omitted at the end of the article: Acknowledgment This study was made possible through a grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the positions or policies of the Department of Justice. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record [rid]2012-12814-007[/rid]). Longstanding policy debates over how prostitution/sex work should be thought about and responded to have been upended in the USA by a growing tendency to conflate the practice with sex trafficking. US law and social policy have converged most fully on this issue in a movement to eradicate what has come to be known as the commercial sexual exploitation of children. One outcome of this movement has been an expanded focus on prosecuting and imprisoning pimps and other legal adults who support or abet juridical minors involved in the sex trade. This paper will show that the simplistic, one-size-fits-all narrative of the child victim and the adult exploiter inherent in this policy does not reflect the realities of street-based sex work in the USA. After 2 years of ethnographic and social network research in two cities, we find that sex market-involved young people participate in a great diversity of market-facilitation relationships, many of which provide the only or the most crucial foundation for their support networks. A social policy based on a one-dimensional construction of the child victim and the adult exploiter not only endangers these crucial relationships but also disappears the real needs of young people involved in the exchange of sex for money. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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