Runaway Kids and Teenage Prostitution: America's Lost, Abandoned, and Sexually Exploited Children

by R. Barri Flowers

Book Overview

This concise and accessible new text examines the correlations between runaway children and teenage prostitution in the United States from a criminological, sociological, and psychological perspective. The author takes a systematic approach to defining and describing the differences between youth who run away from home and those who leave institutional settings and distinguishes the difference between runaway and throwaway children. A careful examination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275973425
• ISBN13: 9780275973421
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"