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Vulnerability and involvement in drug use and sex work Home Office Research Studies The Home Office Research Studies are reports on research undertaken by or on behalf of the Home Office. They cover the range of subjects for which the Home Secre t a ry has re s p o n s i b i l i t y. Other publications produced by the Research, Development and Statistics Directorate include Findings, Statistical Bulletins and Statistical Papers. The Research, Development and Statistics Directorate RDS is part of the Home Office. The Home Office's purpose is to build a safe, just and tolerant society in which the rights and responsibilities of individuals, families and communities are p roperly balanced and the protection and security of the public are maintained. RDS is also part of National Statistics (NS). One of the aims of NS is to inform Parliament and the citizen about the state of the nation and provide a window on the work and perf o rm a n c e of government, allowing the impact of government policies and actions to be assessed. T h e re f o re – R e s e a rch Development and Statistics Directorate exists to improve policy making, decision taking and practice in support of the Home Office purpose and aims, to provide the public and Parliament with information necessary for informed debate and to publish information for future use. First published 2003 Application for reproduction should be made to the Communications and Development Unit, Room 201, Home Office, 50 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AT. © Crown copyright 2003 ISBN 1 84473 049.2 ISSN 0072 6435
Foreword This re p o rt is one of five re s e a rch re p o rts published as part of the Vulnerable Gro u p s R e s e a rch Programme. The central focus of the programme was to investigate patterns of d rug use among groups of vulnerable young people and their access to services. Each p roject focuses on a diff e rent group of vulnerable young people, who tend not to be included in general population surveys. The project reported on here concentrates on young people involved in sex work. The four other projects examine: young people leaving care including runaways; homeless young people; young drug users who are in contact with juvenile drug services; and young people in contact with youth offending teams. Many of the young people across these projects are likely to have had similar backgrounds and vulnerabilities. A number of the studies explore this area and the degree to which the young people are in fact the same population caught at diff e rent points in their lives and via different services. Vulnerable and socially excluded young people involved in prostitution tend to be a hidden population. This study aims to build on existing knowledge of the complex re l a t i o n s h i p between drug use and routes in and out of sex work. It examines what links drug use and prostitution for young people, and what circumstances influence exiting from problem drug use and sex work. The authors suggest that the shared environment of problem drug use and sex work may link together and become mutually reinforcing. They systematically analyse the factors, which particularly when working in combination, were seen to trap young people, offering them little opportunity to exit either problematic drug use or sex work. Teresa Williams Programme Director, Drugs and Alcohol Research, Research, Development Statistics Directorate i
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Page 5 and 6: Contents Foreword i Acknowledgement
Page 7 and 8: Executive summary Recent academic,
Page 9 and 10: The two most important factors for
Page 11 and 12: 1 Introduction Youth prostitution p
Page 13 and 14: Particularly strong correlates of y
Page 15 and 16: The factors that lead a young perso
Page 17 and 18: Criminalising youth The Criminal Ju
Page 19 and 20: c o n t rolling the forms of commer
Page 21 and 22: in situ HIV and sexual health work
Page 23 and 24: End to youth prostitution unlikely
Page 25 and 26: Direction to focus on these points
Page 27 and 28: 2 Method Sampling The sample was se
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Page 31 and 32: sharing of injection equipment. The
Page 33 and 34: 3 Vulnerabilities Drug use comparis
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Page 41 and 42: 4 Problematic drug use and sex work
Page 43 and 44: Main sex work sector by experience
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Page 47 and 48: 5 ‘Trapping’ and ‘exiting’
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● It recommends identifying child
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● Access to housing is crucial fo
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6 Services Access to information an
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or drug users and were there f o re
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contribute to this study by relatin
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To meet the needs of young people a
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7 Summary of conclusions and recomm
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● Law enforcement agencies pursue
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Preventing child abuse through pros
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Appendix A Statistics Here detail i
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Service impact on sexual health Sta
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Appendix B Information sheet for pa
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Appendix C Consent form The Centre
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Appendix D Questionnaire Vulnerabil
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Q052 Have you had a drug problem or
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Q101 Where were you living at the t
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Q164 (show prompt card 5) How often
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I am now going to read you a list o
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References Adams, N., Cart e r, C.,
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Ebaugh, H.R.F. (1988). Becoming an
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Melrose, M., Barrett, D. and Brodie
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Widom, C.S. and Ames, M.A. (1994).
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