PERPETRATION OF VIOLENCE BY FEMALE SEX WORKERS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA: ‘WE WILL CRUSH THEIR BONES’

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• Alternative Title:
  Br J Criminol
• Personal Author:
  Kelly-Hanku, Angela ; Worth, H. ; Redman-MacLaren, M. ; Nosi, S. ; Boli-Neo, R. ; Ase, S. ; Hou, P. ; Aeno, H. ; Kupul, M. ; Amos, A. ; Badman, S. G. ; Vallely, A. J. ; Hakim, A. J.
• Description:
  There is a small but important body of literature on female sex workers' (FSWs) violence towards others, but little of that focused on low- and middle-income countries. Drawn from a larger biobehavioural study of FSWs in three cities in Papua New Guinea, we analyse the interviews from 19 FSWs who reported having perpetrated physical violence towards four major groups: (1) ex-husbands; (2) clients; (3) other sex workers and (4) other people (mainly women). Our study demonstrates that FSWs' use of violence arises from a complex set of social, material and gendered circumstances and cannot be addressed in isolation from other aspects of their lives.
• Subjects:
  Article Female Sex Workers Papua New Guinea Perpetrator Of Violence Violence Women
• Source:
  Br J Criminol. 61(1):104-122
• Pubmed ID:
  35923353
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9345598
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; NU2GGH002093/CC/CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U2G GH001531/GH/CGH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Place as Subject:
  NEW GUINEA
• Volume:
  61
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3b578367c2100fd263c9428aeb127f58b758ae0cb096ec48d0d426b456de6ff9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/119985/cdc_119985_DS1.pdf
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