Young Men in the Street: Help-Seeking Behavior of Young Male Prostitutes

By Cudore L. Snell

This book analyzes the help-seeking behaviors of young urban street males who engage in prostitution. Use of formal resources consist of social agencies, professionals, and informal resources such as friends, family, and peers is described. The work also addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: the AIDS crisis and its impact on young male prostitutes. Snell makes an important contribution to understanding this stigmatized and under-served population. This is the first book to study young male prostitutes' help-seeking behavior. Findings indicate that the majority receive high levels of emotional support from family and friends, while traditional social and mental health services are not effectively reaching street males.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275938743
• ISBN13: 9780275938741
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A primary source for current data on young male prostitution

This text was bought as a research work for a Master in Social Work program. Of the available material, this book alone brought both valid, reliable data as well as a sense of humanity to a difficult subject. The work is somewhat expensive, but it is truly worth the dollars to the graduate or post-graduate researcher.