Making links between sex work, gender and victimisation: The politics and pedagogies of John Schools

Cook, Ian (2015) Making links between sex work, gender and victimisation: The politics and pedagogies of John Schools. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 22 (6). pp. 817-832. ISSN 0966-369X

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2014.917277

Abstract

This article will explore the links between sex work, gender and victimisation. It will draw on the literature on victims and victimology as well as the literature on sex work to explore the ways in which sex work, gender and victimisation are presented at John Schools. These are court-diversion educational programmes that teach those arrested for soliciting for the purposes of buying sex the negative consequences of their actions and are currently operating in parts of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and South Korea. Focusing on a case study of a John School in England, it shows how the pedagogies of the John School are inherently political and structured by the local and extra-local contexts in which it is situated. It also demonstrates the small but significant influence of radical feminist ideas and tropes in the John School and the ways in which the John School presents victimisation relationally as male clients causing hidden harms to victims most notably residents and female sex workers. Here the active construction of both the victim and offender identity is critically reflected on.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Published online 27-5-2014.
Uncontrolled Keywords: sex work, gender, victimisation, John Schools, UK
Subjects: L400 Social Policy
L700 Human and Social Geography
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences
Depositing User: Ian Cook
Date Deposited: 23 Jun 2015 07:16
Last Modified: 17 Dec 2023 16:46
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/23060

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