A Model of Client-Related Violence Against Female Street Sex Workers
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Although a plethora of studies provide evidence of the extent and severity of violence that street sex workers experience from clients, there is little consensus across the explanations that have been advanced to account for this. To explore this, the present study examines in detail the nature of the attacks suffered by 65 female street sex workers. A Multidimensional Scaling analysis (Smallest Space Analysis [SSA-I]) of 17 violent behaviors derived from a con-tent analysis of interviews with street sex workers drew attention to 3 distinct forms of attack. These could be interpreted in terms of Canter’s (1994) Victim Role models that have been the basis for dif-ferentiating offending styles in other violent interpersonal offences. The 3 Victim as Object, Victim as Vehicle, and Victim as Person modes identified are consistent with different theoretical explana-tions for the attacks, providing a framework for integrating the diverse etiological perspectives on violence against street sex workers.
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