Strolling Away
APPENDIX 1 - Research Questions and Tables
Table 2 - What made you want to square up and leave?
| Variable |
Total Combined |
Male Sample |
Female Sample |
| Pregnant |
5% |
0% |
6% |
| Enough stress/pressure |
24% |
0% |
27% |
| Drug abuse |
5% |
20% |
3% |
| Opportunity/stability |
5% |
20% |
3% |
| Family pride/self esteem |
11% |
20% |
9% |
| Violence/deaths/bad date |
47% |
20% |
52% |
| Never left |
3% |
20% |
0% |
| Total |
100% |
100% |
100% |
Table 3 - What made you want to go back?
| Variable |
Total Combined |
Male Sample |
Female Sample |
| Money/survival |
37% |
40% |
37% |
| Pump/street energy |
5% |
0% |
6% |
| Self esteem/street value |
11% |
0% |
12% |
| Some services/turf wars |
3% |
0% |
3% |
| Non-judgmental support |
13% |
40% |
9% |
| Man/pimp/forced to |
17% |
0% |
21% |
| Drugs |
11% |
0% |
12% |
| Never left |
3% |
20% |
0% |
| Total |
100% |
100% |
100% |
Table 4 - What could have prevented you from going back each time?
| Variable |
Total Combined |
Male Sample |
Female Sample |
| Not having the demand everywhere |
8% |
0% |
9% |
| Lack of support had it might of worked sooner |
26% |
0% |
30% |
| Lack of options/more options/money |
16% |
20% |
15% |
| Boredom |
10% |
20% |
9% |
| Safety/if I had felt safer |
3% |
0% |
3% |
| Lack of self worth/vision after the street |
18% |
40% |
15% |
| Too risky to walk away totally/risk to leave |
16% |
0% |
19% |
| Never left |
3% |
20% |
0% |
| Total |
100% |
100% |
100% |
Table 5 - When was your last trick?
| Variable |
Total Combined |
Male Sample |
Female Sample |
| Don’t remember my last date |
21% |
0% |
24% |
| I wasn’t sure it was my last date |
24% |
20% |
24% |
| Remember date, but not who |
10% |
0% |
13% |
| You commit to the process of leaving, so the details are irrelevant |
39% |
60% |
36% |
| You control the time and date, you leave so no real clear details |
3% |
0% |
3% |
| Never left |
3% |
20% |
0% |
| Total |
100% |
100% |
100% |
Table 6 - What made you decide it was your last trick?
| Variable |
Total Combined |
Male Sample |
Female Sample |
| Paranoid/lack of trust/safety fear |
16% |
0% |
18% |
| I didn’t fit in/I was pushed into it |
5% |
0% |
6% |
| The drugs/I couldn’t take it |
5% |
20% |
3% |
| New life/relationship/someone close/alternative |
21% |
20% |
21% |
| Pregnant |
16% |
0% |
18% |
| Enough was enough/enough exploitation |
29% |
40% |
28% |
| Couldn’t make the money |
5% |
20% |
6% |
| Never left |
3% |
0% |
0% |
| Total |
100% |
100% |
100% |
