RT Article
T1 Perpetration of Violence by Female Sex Workers in Papua New Guinea: ‘We will Crush their Bones’
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 61
IS 1
SP 104
OP 122
A1 Kelly-Hanku, Angela
A2 Aeno, H.
A2 Amos, A.
A2 Ase, S.
A2 Badman, S. G.
A2 Boli-Neo, R.
A2 Hakim, A. J.
A2 Hou, P.
A2 Kupul, M.
A2 Nosi, S.
A2 Redman-MacLaren, M.
A2 Vallely, A. J.
A2 Worth, H.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1745884734
AB 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.
K1 Violence
K1 Women
K1 Female sex workers
K1 Papua New Guinea
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa058