Perpetration of Violence by Female Sex Workers in Papua New Guinea: ‘We will Crush their Bones’

Women Who Kill Their Husbands: Mariticides in Contemporary Ghana

Angela Kelly-Hanku, H Worth, M Redman-MacLaren, S Nosi, R Boli-Neo, S Ase, P Hou, H Aeno, M Kupul, A Amos, S G Badman, A J Vallely, A J Hakim and Kauntim mi tu Study Team

The British Journal of Criminology, 2021, vol. 61, issue 1, 104-122

Abstract: There is a small but important body of literature on female sex workers’ (FSWs) violence towards others, but little of that focused on low- and middle-income countries. Drawn from a larger biobehavioural study of FSWs in three cities in Papua New Guinea, we analyse the interviews from 19 FSWs who reported having perpetrated physical violence towards four major groups: (1) ex-husbands; (2) clients; (3) other sex workers and (4) other people (mainly women). Our study demonstrates that FSWs’ use of violence arises from a complex set of social, material and gendered circumstances and cannot be addressed in isolation from other aspects of their lives.

Keywords: violence; perpetrator of violence; women; female sex workers; Papua New Guinea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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