NCJ Number: 182860
| Title: |
Focusing on the Clients of Street Prostitutes: A Creative Approach
to Reducing Violence Against Women -- Final Report
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| Author: |
Martin A. Monto Ph.D.
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Corporate
Author: |
Abt Associates, Inc
United States
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Sponsoring
Agency: |
US Dept of Justice
National Institute of Justice
United States
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| Sale: |
National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849
United States
National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
Paper Reproduction Sales
Box 6000 Department F
Rockville, MD 20849
United States
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| Format: |
document
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Publication
Date: |
10/30/1999
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| Pages: |
79
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| Type: |
Studies/research reports
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| Origin: |
United States
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| Language: |
English
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| Grant No.: |
97-IJ-CX-0033
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| Note: |
See NCJ-182859 for the Summary Report
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| Annotation: |
This study attempts to profile the clients of street prostitutes and
looks briefly at several programs to reduce violence against women.
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| Abstract: |
Prostitution clients as a group differed from men in general in
meaningful ways. They were less likely to be married, more likely to
have unhappy marriages, more likely to have numerous sexual
partners, more likely to use pornography, more likely to have sexual
partners of both sexes and more likely to express sexually liberal
attitudes. In addition, regular users tended to be more different from
other men than first time or occasional users and tended to begin
their forays into prostitution earlier in life. Men arrested for
prostitution did not tend to be less educated than American men in
general and, if education is used as an indicator of social class, they
did not overrepresent the lower classes. Additionally, although men
who had served in the military were more likely to have visited
prostitutes at some point in their lives, men who had served were not
overrepresented among arrested clients. Overall, study results tend
to bode well for efforts to reduce prostitution by focusing on clients.
Though arrested men differed somewhat from other men, the
differences were not extreme and there were no indications that the
group represents a severely deviant and perhaps recalcitrant
population. References, tables, figures, appendixes
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| Main Term: |
Criminology
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| Index Term: |
Prostitution ; Victimization ; Violence prevention ; Statistics/ ;
Violent men ; Behavioral and social sciences/ ; Victims of violence
; Demography ; Females
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The NIJ Research Review: NCJ Number 182860
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