Crack cocaine and prostitution in London in the 1990s

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-39

  Green, Anna ^a   Day, Sophie ^b   Ward, Helen ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Crack; Female prostitution; London

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033622260     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.00190     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Balshem, M., Oxman, G., Vaan Rooyen, D. and Girod, K. (1992) Syphilis, sex and crack cocaine: images of risk and morality, Social Science and Medicine, 35, 2: 147-60.
2. Barnard, M.A. (1993) Violence and vulnerability, Sociology of Health and Illness, 5, 683-705.
3. Berridge, V. (1988) The origins of the English drug 'scene' 1890-1930, Medical History, 32, 51-64.
4. Boyle, K. and Anglin, D.M. (1993) To the curb': sex bartering and drug use among homeless crack users in Los Angeles. In Ratner, M.S. (ed) Crack Pipe as Pimp. New York: Macmillan.
5. Chaisson, M.A., Stoneburner, R.L., Hildebrandt, D.S., Ewing, W.E., Telzak, E.E. and Jaffe, H.W. (1991) Heterosexual transmission of HIV-1 associated with the use of smokeable freebase cocaine (crack), AIDS, 5, 9, 1121-6.
6. Cusick, L. (1998) Female prostitution in Glasgow: drug use and occupational sector, Addiction Research, 6, 2, 115-30.
7. Day, S. (1989) Prostitute women and the ideology of work in London. In Feldman, D.A. (ed) AIDS and Culture: the Global Pandemic. New York: Praeger.
8. Day, S. (1996) The law and the market: rhetorics of exclusion and inclusion among London prostitutes. In Harris, O. (ed) Inside and Outside the Law. Anthropological Studies of Authority and Ambiguity. London: Routledge.
9. Day, S. and Ward, H. (1990) The Praed Street Project: a cohort of prostitute women in London. In Plant, M. (ed) AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution. London: Routledge.
10. Edlin, B.R., Irwin, L., Farque, S., McCoy, C.B., Ward, C. and Serrano, Y. (1994) Intersecting epidemics - crack cocaine use and HIV infection among inner-city young adults, New England Journal of Medicine, 331, 1422-7.
11. Elwood, W.N., Williams, M.L., Bell, D.C. and Richard, A.J. (1997) Powerlessness and HIV prevention among people who trade sex for drugs ('strawberries'), AIDS CARE, 9, 3, 273-84.
12. Fullilove, M.T., Lown, A.E. and Fullilove, R.E. (1992) Crack 'Hos and Skeezers: traumatic experiences of women crack users, The Journal of Sex Research, 29, 2, 257-87.
13. Green, A., Pickering, H., Foster, R., Power, R. and Stimson, G.V. (1994) Who uses cocaine? Social profiles of cocaine users, Addiction Research, 2, 2, 141-54.
14. Hamid, A. (1990) The political economy of crack-related violence, Contemporary Drug Problems, 17, 1, 31-78.
15. Inciardi, J.A., Pottieger, A.E., Forney, M.A., Chitwood, D.D. and McBride, D.C. (1991) Prostitution, IV drug use and sex for crack exchanges among serious delinquents: risk of HIV infection, Criminology, 29, 2, 221-35.
16. Inciardi, J.A., Lockwood, D. and Pottieger, A.E. (1993) Women, crack and crime. In Women and Crack Cocaine. New York: Macmillan.
17. Koester, S. and Schwartz, J. (1993) Crack, gangs, sex and powerlessness: a view from Denver. In Ratner, M.S. (ed) Crack Pipe as Pimp. New York: Macmillan.
18. Mahan, S. (1996) Crack Cocaine, Crime and Women. Legal, Social and Treatment Issues. Drugs, Health and Social Policy Series: 4. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
19. Maher, L. (1996) Hidden in the light: occupational norms among crack-using street level street workers. Journal of Drug Issues, 20, 1, 143-73.
20. Marc, R., Sevgi, M.P.H., Aral, O., Rolf, R.T., Sterk, C.E. and Kahn, J.G. (1991) Crack, sex and STD, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 19, 1, 7-13.
21. Murphy, S. (1992) It Takes your Womanhood: Depersonification, Resistance and Persisting Self. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of California San Francisco.
22. Power, R., Green, A., Foster, R. and Stimson, G. (1995) A qualitative study of the purchasing and distribution patterns of cocaine and crack users in England and Wales, Addiction, 2, 4, 363-79.
23. Rosenbaum, M. (1981) Women on Heroin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
24. Strang, J., Johns, A. and Caan, W. (1993) Cocaine in the UK - 1991, British Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 1-13.
25. Ward, H. Pallecaros, A., Green, A. and Day, S. (1999) Health issues associated with the increasing use of crack among sex workers in London. (submitted for publication).
26. Ward, H. and Day, S. (1997) Health care and regulation: new perspectives. In Scambler, G. and Scambler, A. (eds) Rethinking Prostitution. London and New York: Routledge.
27. Whittaker, D. and Hart, G. (1996) Research note: Managing risks: the social organisation of indoor sex work, Sociology of Health and Illness, 18, 3, 399-414.