Prostitution
The following guide provides Web site links, a list of selected books, and access to online periodical articles about this subject. The Web site links have been researched, evaluated, and annotated by Rio Hondo College Librarians. The Librarians have specifically selected these Web sites to meet the research needs of Rio Hondo College students

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Human Trafficking of Children in the United States
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/factsheet.html
U.S. Department of Education fact sheet that defines terminology, suggests links to government sites, and provides information about how to identify children who are victims of trafficking.

PENet : Prostitutes’ Education Network
http://www.bayswan.org/index.html
The Prostitutes’ Education Network is an information service about legislative and cultural issues as they effect prostitutes and other sex workers. The service is comprised of information for sex workers and activists/educators who study issues of decriminalization, human rights in the context of prostitution, violence against prostitutes and women, sex workers and pornography, as well as current trends in legislation and social policy in the U.S. and internationally. Has an excellent section on statistics relating to prostitution.  This site has a pro-prostitution, pro-decriminalization bias.

Prostitution Research & Education
http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/
This site, sponsored by the non-profit San Francisco Women's Centers, features facts, services, and information about activists, prostitution and violence, trafficking, and legal issues.  Decidedly anti-prostitution slant from a feminist perspective.

"A Summons to Comradeship" : World War I and II Posters
http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.html
University of Minnesota Libraries digital collection of poster.  A primary resource for historic images of posters addressing prostitution in World Wars I and II.  In the University of Minnesota Libraries archive, click the "search the collection" option, then limit search by subject "prostitution" to find archived posters created by the United States Army Education Commission, United States Navy, American Social Health Association, and Arthur Henriksen.

Trafficking in Persons : a Guide for Non-Governmental Organizations
http://www.dol.gov/wb/media/reports/trafficking.htm
Information regarding federal immigration rights afforded to victims of human trafficking.  Resources section provides government contacts that offer assistance, such as legal aid, to trafficking victims.

Women's Human Rights Resources
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/mainpage.htm
This site from the Bora Laskin Law Library in Toronto covers many women's issues, including prostitution. Click on the link marked "Women’s Human Rights Resources Database" and select "prostitution" from the list of issues. Each issue has articles, documents, and annotated links.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search keyword "prostitution" to access entries in a variety of online books and encyclopedias such as Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, West's Encyclopedia of American Law, and New Catholic Encyclopedia.

Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com
Select issues & controversies link, then search "Human trafficking" for information regarding efforts to reduce the effects of this crime.  Includes text from a 2004 speech to the United Nations General Assembly in which George W. Bush addresses the subject of human trafficking.

ProQuest
A search for keywords "prostitution and human trafficking" will provide results from journals, newspapers, magazines, reports, and trade publications, such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, Military Review, and Juvenile Justice Digest.

SIRS
 Using either "human trafficking" or "prostitution" as a subject term, access numerous sources including newspapers, magazine, and reference book articles.  Graphics and timelines are tools provided by SIRS to increase comprehension.

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The following books can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library.

Reference Books
Non-circulating:

Encyclopedia of crime & justice
Call number: Ref HV6017.E52 2002

The debatabase book : a must-have guide for successful debate
Call number: Ref ZA3050.D3945 2007x

Encyclopedia of prostitution and sex work
Call number: Ref HQ115.E53 2006

Encyclopedia of sociology
Call number: Ref HM425.E5 2000

Illicit trafficking : a reference handbook
Call number: Ref HV6252.K45 2005

Violence in America : an encyclopedia
Call number: Ref HN90.V5V5474 1999

Suggested Subject Headings
For additional titles on this topic at Rio Hondo, click on the following Library of Congress subject headings:

Child prostitution

Pornography

Prostitutes

Prostitution

Sex-oriented businesses

Women--Crimes against

Library Catalog     top
Use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo College Library.

Articles     top
The Rio Hondo College Library provides online access to full-text articles through our online databases.  Please note:  you must be a Rio Hondo College student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.

The sample searches and articles below are from the ProQuest database.  If you are viewing this subject guide from an on-campus computer, simply click on the links below.   To gain access if you are at home or off-campus, first click here: https://rioweb.riohondo.edu/library/.  Input your student ID number and password [your birthdate].  You will see a list of all the online databases to which you have access.  Click on ProQuest and enter the database.  You may conduct your own searches at this point or come back to this subject guide and click on any of the links below:

(SUB (prostitution) )  [From peer-reviewed journals]
(SUB (prostitution) and SUB (legalization) )
(SUB (prostitution) AND SUB(Sexually transmitted diseases) )
(SUB (prostitution) AND SUB (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome) )
(SUB (prostitution) and males )
(SUB (prostitution) and minors)

Researched and evaluated by:
D. Petticoffer, Librarian 12/1997
last update: M. Delatte, Librarian 5/2010

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