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Social Science Criminology

Games Pimps Play

Pimps, Players and Wives-in-Laws: A Qualitative Analysis of Street Prostitution

by (author) James F. Hodgson

Publisher
Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
Initial publish date
Oct 1998
Category
Criminology
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551301167
    Publish Date
    Oct 1998
    List Price
    $34.95

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Description

Games Pimps Play is a rich, original, and compellingly comprehensive study of various stages of development and transformation of vice, violence, and victimization. Offering new and provocative insights into prostitution and the concomitant enterprises of pimping, the author challenges the reductionist, facile, and obfuscating conceptions of street prostitution, so characteristic of conventional approaches, by reiterating the more dynamic, elusive, and complex interactions of contexts, activities, and actors within specified socio-political sites.

About the author

James F. Hodgson is a former police officer who is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Graduate Department of Sociology, Longwood Colllege, Virginia. He is the author of Games Pimps Play: A Qualitative Analysis of Street Prostitution.

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Editorial Reviews

"Games Pimps Play is a detailed and insightful ethnographic analysis of the underworld of adolescent female prostitution...This study is of value to anyone interested in the sociology of deviance, social problems, social welfare, and social policy."— “Dr. Frederick Desroches, University of Waterloo