For years studies of women's deviance were limited to
prostitution and other kinds of sexual deviance thought to be
typical female offences. It soon became apparent that not all
women offenders fit this stereotype and that women were involved
in a wide variety of criminal activities. In addition to
prostitution, drug offences and homicide are the most frequent
Down in history, Asian American, African Americans and Latin
American women met the high demand for prostitution.
This happened around the 1880's through the 1920's for the Black
and Asian because a lot were migrating to the slums from their
native homeland or for blacks deep down in the south.
The sexual demands of white men doubled in Chinatowns and tripled
Again this is because of the poverty and crime rate because there
were little or no jobs in the area. Most of them were single with
children and had no means of support, but to sell their bodies
In 1986, the last year for the Uniform Crime Reports included
Hispanic arrest. Blacks and Latinos were the only two races of
color arrested for prostitution,(Young, 1986).
One possible explanation for this unbalanced number for
prostitution of minorities is that their sometimes forced to work
Many things such as abandonment, neglect, verbal attacks,
parental problems with alcohol and drugs, physical and sexual
"Streetwalkers" not only increase the possibility of contact
with cops but also introduce police harassment and racial
Streetwalkers are mainly poor living day to day.
On the other there are also call-girls. Call-girls are high class
Many are white who have college degrees and are from middle class
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