Experiences of Youth in the Sex Trade in Atlantic City
Type
Year published
Accession number
25575
Title
Experiences of Youth in the Sex Trade in Atlantic City
Organization
Center for Court Innovation, New York, NY
Abstract
This report represents one of six site-specific reports from a national multi-site study conducted by the Center for Court Innovation in collaboration with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention within the U.S. Department of Justice, the study aimed to gain a representative portrait of the lives and needs of youth who are involved in exchanging sex for money, food, housing, drugs, or other goods. To complement the quantitative focus of the national multi-site report, this report and the five other site-specific reports endeavor to provide a rich qualitative account that reveals and gives voice to the experiences, perceptions, and needs of the relevant population. The Atlantic City researchers recruited 119 youth, from which they analyzed data from only those participants who were under age 25 (n=98).
Availability details
Available for free download on the Center for Court Innovation website at: https://www.innovatingjustice.org/publications/experiences-youth-sex-tr…