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Crack prostitution in Philadelphia: A career model.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Geter, Robert S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminology.
- Sociology.
- 0626.
- 0627.
- Penn dissertations--Sociology.
- Sociology--Penn dissertations.
- Local Subjects:
- Penn dissertations--Sociology.
- Sociology--Penn dissertations.
- 0626.
- 0627.
- Physical Description:
- 180 pages
- Contained In:
- Dissertation Abstracts International 54-03A.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- This document explores the sex-for-crack phenomenon that emerged in Philadelphia in the late eighties. To facilitate this exploration, a career model is built that traces the career trajectory of the typical poverty class black woman from experimental use of crack cocaine to street corner prostitution. The model is based on illicit drug use theories and a theoretical concept referred to in the addiction literature as the career framework. The career phases included in this model are: the Turn-Out phase; the Piper phase; and the Hustler phase. In addition to the model, this document provides descriptive details of the situations and events that propel poor, black women along the path to indiscriminate sex-for-crack. Fifty-one addicts recovery at two Philadelphia drug-free homeless shelters were interviewed for this study.
- Notes:
- Thesis (Ph.D. in Sociology) -- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-03, Section: A, page: 1099.
- Supervisor: Elijah Anderson.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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