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Vulnerability and involvement in drug use and sex work ii Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the 125 young people with experience of sex work and d rug use, who participated in interviews for this study. We would also like to thank the service providers in statutory and voluntary agencies who helped access and recruit these participants and also provided private accommodation for the interviews. Our thanks also go to those who helped carry out the research and evaluation: Mark Davis, Ali Judd and Helen Fox of Imperial College; Mel Cowley from Dataplus Solutions and Melissa Echalier from the University of Surrey. Linda Cusick – Imperial College Anthea Martin – Imperial College Tiggey May – South Bank University The Research, Development and Statistics Directorate would like to thank Dr. Susan Carr (The Sandyford Initiative, Greater Glasgow NHS) and the other reviewer, who wished to remain anonymous, for acting as independent assessors for this report.
Contents Foreword i Acknowledgements ii Executive summary v 1 Introduction 1 Youth prostitution prevalence 1 Vulnerabilities 1 Problematic drug use and sex work 5 ‘Trapping’ and ‘exiting’ 7 Research aims and objectives 14 2 Method 17 Sampling 17 Recruitment 17 Participants 18 Data collection 18 Interviewing procedures 20 Analysis 20 Definitions used 20 3 Vulnerabilities 23 Drug use comparison with British Crime Survey findings 23 Vulnerability factors for problematic drug use and sex work 27 Relationships between vulnerability factors 29 4 Problematic drug use and sex work 31 Qualitative insight into ‘shared environment’ as potential explanation for relationships between problematic drug use and sex work 31 Quantitative evidence on ‘shared environment’ as explanation for relationships between problematic drug use and sex work 31 Drug use and sex work – order of involvement in the two activities 33 Routes into sex work 35 iii
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Page 3: Foreword This re p o rt is one of f
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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● 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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