ABSTRACT
Traditionally, academic analyses of social policy formulation focus on the motivations and interactions of political actors rather than the representational strategies deployed. As a consequence, little attention has been given to how the criminal justice and welfare policy processes work to constitute particular subjectivities. In this chapter I describe how youth prostitution has been reconfigured as a form of sexual violence, namely child sexual abuse, and how, through this process, those involved in youth prostitution are reconfigured as ‘sexually abused children’.
