Phase II of the Runaways and Street Youth Project


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This publication presents the results of the Ottawa case studies conducted for Phase II of the Runaways and Street Youth Project. The Ottawa case study component of the Runaways and Street Youth Project was designed to provide in-depth information about the way a community responds to runaways and street youth.




Being Heard


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Being Heard examines, from their own perspectives and experiences, the lives of young women sexually exploited through prostitution. Putting their voices in the centre of its analysis, the book tries to help us more fully understand the experiences of girls exploited through prostitution, the complex issues of sex trade work and the ways to best respond to the issues. Beginning with a discussion of what little we know about youth prostitution, subsequent chapters address young women’s experiences with community and government programs, issues of self-identity, health and safety concerns, experiences of violence, factors that push young women into and may draw them out of sex trade work, and the effectiveness of Canadian legislation in coming to the aid of young prostitutes. The book is based on a four-year research project undertaken with Prairie women involved in sex trade work as youth and those who provide programming for them.




Privatization, Law, and the Challenge to Feminism


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Examining eight case studies on the role of law in various arenas, this collection of essays addresses the reconfiguration of the relations between the state, the market, and the family caused by privatization.










Phase II of the Runaways and Street Youth Project


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The Runaways and Street Youth Project is one of several initiatives undertaken by the federal government's Interdepartmental Working Group on Youth-at-Risk. It consists of two parts: phase I, which involved a detailed research design exercise and comprehensive literature review; and phase II, which included two in-depth case studies of the manner in which the service system in different communities responds to runaways and street youth. This general introduction and overview provides a brief summary of the findings and recommendations of phase I, as well as an overview of the case studies undertaken in Saskatoon and Ottawa as part of phase II.







Practical Lessons


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M is for Mutual, A is for Acts


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This book reviews twenty-five years of Canadian research on prostitutes, their clients, street youth, and injection drug users and discovers data that challenge misconceptions about men who sell sex and the spread of AIDS. Dan Allman looks at how Canadian social theory approached male sex work and how Canadian researchers have defined and measured HIV risks for male sex workers in the past.