TY - JOUR
T1 - How Israeli social workers perceive adolescent girls in prostitution
AU - Peled, Einat
AU - Lugasi, Reut
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/4/1
Y1 - 2015/4/1
N2 - The phenomenon of girls in prostitution poses great challenges to professionals who work with adolescent girls at risk and in distress. Prostitution is socially stigmatized and seen as something shameful. However, current theory and research show adolescent girls in prostitution to be victims of violence, exploitation and trauma. This naturalistic qualitative study examined the views of 15 social workers at six Adolescent Girls Treatment Units in Israel on prostitution and on adolescent girls in prostitution. Data was collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews. The participants struggled to link the term "prostitution" with the adolescent girls in their care. The findings explore the source this perceived conflict, and its manifestation in the participants' professional intervention with the girls. The discussion examines the participants' professional discourse about adolescent girls in prostitution, and offers explanations for their difficulty in associating the adolescent girls in their care with prostitution.
AB - The phenomenon of girls in prostitution poses great challenges to professionals who work with adolescent girls at risk and in distress. Prostitution is socially stigmatized and seen as something shameful. However, current theory and research show adolescent girls in prostitution to be victims of violence, exploitation and trauma. This naturalistic qualitative study examined the views of 15 social workers at six Adolescent Girls Treatment Units in Israel on prostitution and on adolescent girls in prostitution. Data was collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews. The participants struggled to link the term "prostitution" with the adolescent girls in their care. The findings explore the source this perceived conflict, and its manifestation in the participants' professional intervention with the girls. The discussion examines the participants' professional discourse about adolescent girls in prostitution, and offers explanations for their difficulty in associating the adolescent girls in their care with prostitution.
KW - Adolescent girls in prostitution
KW - Commercial sexual exploitation of adolescent girls
KW - Perceptions of prostitution
KW - Social work with adolescent girls
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.12.003
DO - 10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.12.003
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AN - SCOPUS:84926109967
SN - 0145-2134
VL - 42
SP - 20
EP - 29
JO - Child Abuse and Neglect
JF - Child Abuse and Neglect
ER -
