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There has been a considerable amount written about women’s entry into prostitution but relatively little about how they exit. Over the past decade, however, there has been growing interest in the exiting process. This interest has been stimulated on one hand by a steady stream of sociological and criminological literature on desistance and on the other by the growing realisation that a large percentage of women involved in prostitution would like to exit if they could (Audet and Carrier 2006; Bradford 2005; Farley 2004; Hough and Rice 2008; Ng and Venticich 2006; O’Neill and Campbell 2011).
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© 2014 Roger Matthews, Helen Easton, Lisa Young and Julie Bindel
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Matthews, R., Easton, H., Young, L., Bindel, J. (2014). The Dynamics of Exiting and Desistance. In: Exiting Prostitution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137289421_1
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