Book Review - Corey S. Shdaimah, Chrysanthi S. Leon, and Shelly

The book’s eight chapters use the programs to explore and critique the motivations, visions, and goals of PDPs across the United States. [...] In Chapter 2, ‘Study Sites: Prostitution Diversion Programs in Baltimore and Philadelphia’, the authors describe the formation of the SPD and PDC. [...] Chapter 6, ‘“To Be Normal”: Building, Rebuilding, and Surveilling Relationships: Social Connection in the Shadow of the Courts’, explores the social connections of program participants in the shadow of the court. [...] Because the authors’ research began at the formation of both the SPD and the PDC, the authors had a unique opportunity to trace its effects over two distinct time periods. [...] This is demonstrable in the use of the rich accounts of the participants that aided the authors in the formation of their arguments of PDPs as insufficient.