"I won't do Manhattan" : causes and consequences of a decline in street prostitution / Robert R. Weidner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weidner, Robert R.

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--New York (State)--New York.

Prostitution.

New York (State)--New York.

Prostitutes--New York (State)--New York.

Prostitutes.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2001.

Contents:

1.1 New York City's Traditional Approach to Prostitution Enforcement 3

1.2 Components of the Intervention 5

1.3 Preliminary Impacts of the Intervention 14

Chapter 2 Literature Review 17

2.1 Law Enforcement Efforts & Deterrence of Misdemeanor Crime 17

2.2 Misdemeanor Courts 18

2.3 Reasons for Individuals' Involvement in Prostitution 20

2.4 Prostitution Markets & Enforcement 22

Chapter 3 Previous Evaluations of Prostitution Enforcement Efforts & Specific Aims of This Study 27

3.1 Previous Research Evaluating Prostitution Enforcement Efforts 27

3.2 Accounting for Displacement 30

3.3 Specific Aims of This Study 32

3.4 Hypotheses 35

Chapter 4 Recidivism Analyses 39

4.1 Sampling 39

4.2 Comparison of Lambdas: Methodology & Results 41

4.3 Event History Analyses 42

4.4 Caveats to Recidivism Analyses & Unanswered Questions 50

Chapter 5 Complementary Indicators of a Changing Scene 55

5.1 Quantitative Analyses 56

5.2 Findings from Ethnographic Observations 67

5.3 Resident Survey Findings 69

Chapter 6 Interview Sampling & Methodology 71

6.1 Sampling 71

6.2 Methods 73

Chapter 7 Behavioral Changes of Individual Prostitutes 79

7.1 Method Displacement 80

7.2 Spatial Displacement 88

7.3 Desistance 97

7.4 Hierarchies of Behavioral Change 102

Chapter 8 The Midtown Court & Changing Working Conditions 107

8.1 Enforcement & Its Effects 107

8.2 The Midtown Community Court's Role 115

8.3 Overarching Impacts of the Intervention 124

8.4 Modeling the Effects of the Intervention 129

Chapter 9 The Midtown Court's Sanctions & Services 133

9.1 Perceptions of Fairness 134

9.2 Perceptions of Help 143

10.1 Summary of Findings 151

10.2 Implications of Findings 157

10.3 Limitations of This Study & Areas for Future Research 161

A. Generalizability 165

B. .Past Efforts to Improve Quality of Life in New York 169

C. City 173

D. Prostitution & Stratification 177

E. Overview of Event History Analyses 181

F. Findings from Ethnographic Observations 187

Manhattan's Postindustrial Transformation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.

ISBN:

1931202109

OCLC:

45861691