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  • Women of the Street

    How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution

    by Susan Dewey, Tonia St. Germain ...
    Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service workers who try to curtail itWorking together every day, the lives of sex workers, police officers, public defenders, and social service providers are profoundly intertwined, yet their relationships are often adversarial and rooted in fundamentally false ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Gun Present

    Inside a Southern District Attorney's Battle against Gun Violence

    by Susan Dewey ...
    Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors—an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney—present a deeply human portrait of prosecutors’ work. Built on an immersive, community-based participatory partnership between ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Community-Based Participatory Research with Women in Prison

    The Women’s Words/Women’s Worlds Peer Mentoring Program

    by Susan Dewey, Brittany VandeBerg, Julie Tennant-Caine ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This innovative work tells the story of a unique partnership between a state prison administration and a team of incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, artists, and students known as The WoW Collective due to their joint efforts in developing a peer mentoring program called “Women’s Words/Women’s Worlds (WoW).” Using the example of WoW, the book provides a guide to doing community ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Neon Wasteland

    On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town

    by Susan Dewey ...
    This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing her subjects, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Outlaw Women

    Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty in the New American West

    by Susan Dewey, Bonnie Zare, Catherine Connolly, Rhett Epler, Rosemary Bratton ...
    A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too often depicted as an urban problem, a male problem, a problem that disproportionately affects people of color. This book, however, takes readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women of the rural West, considering how poverty and gendered ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China

    Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes

    by Susan Dewey, Tiantian Zheng, Treena Orchard ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Sex work continues to provoke controversial legal and public policy debates world-wide that raise fundamental questions about the state’s role in protecting individual rights, status quo social relations, and public health. This book unites ethnographic research from China, Canada, and the United States to argue that criminalization results in a totalizing set of negative consequences for sex ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Ethical and Pro-Social Responses to Global Social Problems

    Beyond the Intractable

    Edited by Brad Tripp, Susan Dewey, Brittany VandeBerg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This short book unites seven case studies from Africa, Europe, and the Americas to offer new solution-oriented ways of thinking about seemingly insurmountable social problems. These solution-oriented ways of thinking, as detailed in each of the seven case study chapters, emphasize how understanding the micro-dynamics of conflicts (and their rootedness in local sociocultural and associated ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Policing Pleasure

    Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective

    Edited by Susan Dewey, Patty Kelly ...
    Mónica waits in the Anti-Venereal Medical Service of the Zona Galactica, the legal, state-run brothel where she works in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico. Surrounded by other sex workers, she clutches the Sanitary Control Cards that deem her registered with the city, disease-free, and able to work. On the other side of the world, Min stands singing karaoke with one of her regular clients, warily eyeing ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Affect

    Edited by Susan Dewey, Brittany VandeBerg ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This unprecedentedly expansive international collection of empirical and theoretical material explores the nascent field of criminology and affect. Affect theory first arose as an analytical framework to conceptualize and understand dynamic emotional relationships between individuals and the social environment. Despite the tremendous potential utility for affect theory to assist criminologists ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Policing Pleasure

    Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective

    Edited by Susan Dewey, Patty Kelly ...
    Mónica waits in the Anti-Venereal Medical Service of the Zona Galactica, the legal, state-run brothel where she works in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico. Surrounded by other sex workers, she clutches the Sanitary Control Cards that deem her registered with the city, disease-free, and able to work. On the other side of the world, Min stands singing karaoke with one of her regular clients, warily eyeing ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research

    Edited by Susan Dewey, Isabel Crowhurst, Chimaraoke Izugbara ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research unites 45 contributions from researchers, sex workers, activists, and practitioners who live and work in 28 countries throughout the world.Focusing tightly on the contemporary state of sex industry research through eight carefully selected themes, this volume sets a clear agenda for future research, activism, and policymaking. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Ethical Research with Sex Workers

    Anthropological Approaches

    by Tiantian Zheng, Susan Dewey ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume is the result of the many years the authors have spent conducting ethnographic field research with sex workers, conversing with other researchers, and, perhaps most importantly, developing a deep sense of empathy for the sex worker participants in the research as well as the colleagues who carry out this work with the goal of advancing social justice. They have a combined total of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD