Control and Protect

Collaboration, Carceral Protection, and Domestic Sex Trafficking in the United States

Jennifer Musto (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2016
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28195-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Explores the meaning and significance of efforts designed to combat sex trafficking in the United States. This book examines how partnerships forged in the name of fighting domestic sex trafficking have blurred the boundaries between punishment and protection, victim and offender, and state and nonstate authority.

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Control and Protect explores the meaning and significance of efforts designed to combat sex trafficking in the United States. A striking case study of the new ways in which law enforcement agents, social service providers, and nongovernmental advocates have joined forces in this campaign, this book reveals how these collaborations consolidate state power and carceral control. This book examines how partnerships forged in the name of fighting domestic sex trafficking have blurred the boundaries between punishment and protection, victim and offender, and state and nonstate authority.

Autor

Jennifer Musto is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.06.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 3 b-w illustrations, 5 tables
• Verlagsort: Berkerley
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 499 g
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-520-28195-0 / 0520281950
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-28195-0 / 9780520281950
• Zustand: Neuware