Runaway Kids and Teenage Prostitution: America's Lost, Abandoned, and Sexually Exploited Children

by R. Barri Flowers

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This concise and accessible new text examines the correlations between runaway children and teenage prostitution in the United States from a criminological, sociological, and psychological perspective. The author takes a systematic approach to defining and describing the differences between youth who run away from home and those who leave institutional settings and distinguishes the difference between runaway and throwaway children. A careful examination of teenage prostitution among girls show more and boys helps to illuminate the special problems faced by children who have run away. In addition, the a show less

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i didn't need this book to be written like a narrative or voyeuristic fiction, but i would have appreciated something more than what was given. this is a book that is just filled with statistics, and i would have preferred the entire thing just be given in bullet points, since there was no analysis of anything. it's hard for me to rate this because it has some important information in it, but it's presented in such an unapproachable way, and, quite frankly, much of it is written in an offensive way.

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Ronald Barri Flowers, born October 25 1956 in Detroit, is a criminologist, crime writer, novelist, textbook author, and screenwriter. He received a B.A. in 1977 and a M.S. in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice in 1980. His publications include The Prostitution Of Women and Girls, an exploration of female show more prostitution worldwide; The Sex Slave Murders, the true story of Gerald and Charlene Gallego, America's first husband-wife serial killers; and Female Crime, Criminals and Cellmates: An Exploration of Female Criminality and Delinquency. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Nonfiction, Sociology, Politics and Government
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362.74Society, government, & cultureSocial problems and social servicesSocial WelfareChild welfareAt-risk children and youth
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HV1431 .F58Social sciencesSocial pathology. Social and public welfare. CriminologySocial pathology. Social and public welfare.Protection, assistance and reliefSpecial classesYoung adults. Youth. Teenagers
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