Exiting street-level prostitution is a complex, convoluted process. Few studies have described this process within any formal conceptual framework. This article reviews two general models and two prostitution-specific models and their applicability to the exiting process. Barriers encountered as women attempt to leave the streets are identified. Based on the four models, the barriers, the prost...

You know the power of words. We pass through periods dominated by this or that word it may be development, or it may be competition, or education, or purity or efficiency or even sanctity. It is the word of the time. Well just then it was the word Thrift which was out in the streets walking arm in arm with righteousness, the inseparable companion and backer up of all such national catch-words, ...

Much of the research to date on street children has taken the form of largely quantitative surveys which have sought to establish numbers of street children, the reasons for their presence on the streets, their demographic and household characteristics, and their survival and criminal activities. A constant temptation in broadly quantitative research of this nature is to formulate a ‘composite ...

An Unattainable Salvation Dirt, Danger & Domesticity in Old New York It was 1832, and in the Five Points area of New York, a great street excavation was under way. What would cause such a flurry over the cobbles? Here, shovels plied the earth decades before the subway tunneled beneath the crowded streets. Electrical poles and telegraph lines had yet to become a nuisance worthy of inhumation. No...

Impoverished inner-city neighborhoods in the United States are threatening contexts for the development of youngsters during middle childhood and adolescence. Nevertheless, some African-American families living in such neighborhoods succeed in protecting their children from the risks of "the streets" and launch them on paths toward achievement. Using quotes and ethnographic material from many s...

Network connectivity refers to the quality of the connections that link every point in a community to every other point in a community. It is determined by the structure of the street network in terms of the pattern of streets and intersections, but the quality of those connections varies depending on the structure of the network (Handy, et al. 2003). Between any two points, a network might pro...

We present a computer vision-based street parking detection. Our system detects vacant parking spots in between the T-shaped parking markers that are commonly used to indicate parking spots on the sides of streets. We detect these T marks using a template-based sliding window approach that convolves HOG features. Using these T marks, we can find parking regions in the image, and compute color h...

The most common definition of a street child or youth is “any girl or boy who has not reached adulthood, for whom the street has become her or his habitual abode and/or sources of livelihood, and who is inadequately protected, supervised or directed by responsible adults” (Inter-NGO, 1985). UNICEF defines street children as, “those who are of the street and on the street.” “Children of the stre...