TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Becoming an Ex–Sex Worker
JO  - Feminist criminology
A1  - Sanders, Teela
SP  - 74
EP  - 95
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
N2  - This article has four core aims. First, to identify the processes of change women undertake to leave sex work through a typology of transitions. The typology suggests four dominant ways out of sex work as reactionary, gradual planning, natural progression, and "yo-yoing." Second, the article argues against the low self-control theory by asserting that sex workers engage in specific deviant "careers" rather than stable deviant roles and, therefore, exit to "complete conformist" once sex work is ceased. Third, it rejects Mansson and Hedin's claim that the "emotional commitment" of individual women is the key factor to leaving but instead argues that structural, political, cultural, and legal factors as well as cognitive transformations and agency are key determinants in trapping women in the industry. Fourth, the article challenges the U.K. policy context that reinforces "exiting" through compulsory rehabilitation and the criminalization of sex work.<p /> 
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SN  - 1557-0851
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085106294845
ID  - ref1
ER  -