Theresa Anasti
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 658737 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Theresa Anasti |
| PRENOMES | Theresa |
| SOBRENOME | Anasti |
| ASSINATURA | ANASTI T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Oakland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1554-1948 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Substance Use Disorders Among Human Trafficking Victims
Background Human trafficking (HT) survivors are at risk for substance use disorder (SUD), although assessing the SUD epidemiology of HT survivors is difficult. This study used data from the 2019 to 2021 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample to estimate the prevalence of SUD for HT survivors utilizing emergency departments (ED) in the United States of America (US).Methods We included visits for patients aged 12–64 years with any International Cla…
If It’s Not Relevant to Your Diagnosis, We Don’t Need to Ask”
There is a lack of research on the impact of trauma-informed care for survivors of sex trafficking. This article examines service providers' perspectives on trauma-informed best practices for engaging survivors in service provision. Twenty-one service providers in the southwestern US participated in a virtual semi-structured interview that was approximately 1-h in length. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and data analysis consisted of…
A place-based spatial analysis of racial inequities in overdose in St. Louis County Missouri, United States
These findings suggest that places of worship, the hospitality industry, and housing authorities may be physical features of the environment that reflect social conditions that are conducive to overdose. The scaling up of harm reduction strategies could be enhanced by targeting places where features are co-located
Addressing “Idealism Exploitation” Through Unionization
Through in-depth interviews with nonprofit workers and full-time union organizers in the nonprofit sector, this qualitative study examines the causes, outcomes, and workers’ perceptions of the recent nonprofit worker unionization movement. We found that chronic low pay, substandard working conditions, and a concern for compromised services to clients were the impetus for workers’ labor organizing. Interviews revealed that existing unionization ef…
Co-production in syringe service programs
Co-production in the human services is a way of working that includes the expertise of service users in service implementation. While co-production is often considered a net positive for the co-producing organisation, this can depend on how, with whom, and to what extent co-production is conducted. This study uses qualitative interview data from 26 employees at syringe service programs (SSPs) in a midwestern US state to examine how SSPs implement…
Strategies for Cultivating Organizational Legitimacy among Core-Stigmatized Service Providers
We explore how a group of service-providing organizations have strategically engaged in actions to cultivate legitimacy among varied external stakeholders. Using the case of syringe service programs, programs that use harm reduction services to engage the population of drug users, the authors use qualitative methods to examine how these stigmatized yet increasingly accepted organizations have sought to cultivate legitimacy among the audiences tha…
The Compassionate Court? Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs
“I was already in the system from the start”
The present study examines how substance-using women in the street sex trade formulate understandings of pregnancy at the intersections of healthcare, social services, and family systems in ways that reflect internalized dominant cultural assumptions about substance use, motherhood, and the street sex trade. Three primary frameworks emerged with respect to pregnancy-related decision-making as prompted by heightened scrutiny, intensified stigma, a…
Peer involvement in service provision
Human service non-profit organisations (HSNPs) looking to improve the representation of clients in the work of their organisation may decide to hire people with lived experience as peer providers. This paper looks at how HSNPs that provide services to sex workers make decisions about hiring those with lived experience of sex work as staff. To address the issue, the following questions were asked: 1) how do HSNPs make the decision to hire sex work…
Role of community-based organizations in countering carceral logics
The work of community-based organizations (CBOs), organizations that represent a particular community, can be an impetus for social change and advocacy. By drawing on the institutional entrepreneurship perspective, this study seeks to understand how CBOs attempt to challenge dominant carceral logics (referred to as a punishment-oriented mind-set) in operation across two fields: (1) the public-school system and (2) human service providers that wor…
Good neighbors or good prisoners? Non-uniformed staff beliefs about incarcerated people influence prison social climate
We analyzed results from semi-structured interviews and participant observation with educators, clinical staff, and administrators who worked at nearly 100 different correctional facilities centrally managed by eight separate state prison systems to understand how the beliefs they hold about the life experiences and future trajectories of incarcerated people influence prison social climate. We found that staff who regard incarcerated people as pa…
The (non)use of alcohol in topless establishments
This article considers current and proposed restrictions placed on the adult industry in Chicago in order to explore the attempts made through legislation to control legal forms of sex work, specifically exotic dancing and burlesque. I focus specifically on the recent debate within the city of Chicago as to whether or not alcohol should be allowed in places where women are topless. While exotic dance is often discussed as a type of exploitation a…
Street-Level Bureaucrats and Ethical Conflicts in Service Provision to Sex Workers
Social workers and other service providers are the agents that often have initial contact with sex workers, a highly stigmatised population that has a fraught history with the social work profession. In this paper, I use Lipsky’s theory of street-level bureaucracy and show how social workers use professional discretion when working with this population, even as it might conflict with their personal ethics. Specifically, I focus on the dual servic…
Hybrid Models for Social Change
Community-based hybrid nonprofits, defined as organizations that combine social services with organizing or advocacy, play a crucial role at the neighborhood level. Considering their nonconformity to conventional organizational forms, they face specific challenges and advantages in achieving their combined advocacy and service mission. Using neo-institutional theory to provide context to our data, this qualitative study of 18 nonprofits working i…
The Strategic Action Field of Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
This paper looks at organizations working on issues of sex work/sex trafficking in Chicago as a strategic action field (SAF): a space where actors engage in collective action with a shared understanding of the field’s purposes, rules, and norms. Through analysis of SAFs, scholars focus on how actors intersect, manifesting in a context that simultaneously allows for reproducing the status quo, as well as producing social change. Using qualitative …
Officers Are Doing the Best They Can”
Frontline service providers are often tasked with providing services to criminalized populations, including individuals involved in the sex trade. These providers have been working to transform services to this population, proposing what they believe to be socially just responses in helping individuals in the sex trade transition from “criminals” to a “victims.” While frontline service providers have been advocating for trauma-informed and compas…
Survivor or Laborer
Regardless of primary population served, human service organizations are likely to come into contact with individuals who have been currently or formerly involved in the sex trade. In the United States, social workers have had a fraught history with this population, either treating them like delinquents or like victims in need of rescue. Sex worker activists in the United States continue to decry the negative treatment provided by individuals in …
Book/Media Reviews
Theresa Anasti, BOOK/MEDIA REVIEWS, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 83, No. 3, 60 Years after Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: Educational Opportunities, Disparities, Policies, and Legal Actions (Summer 2014), pp. 420-421
Survivor or Laborer
Regardless of primary population served, human service organizations are likely to come into contact with individuals who have been currently or formerly involved in the sex trade. In the United States, social workers have had a fraught history with this population, either treating them like delinquents or like victims in need of rescue. Sex worker activists in the United States continue to decry the negative treatment provided by individuals in …
Street-Level Bureaucrats and Ethical Conflicts in Service Provision to Sex Workers
Social workers and other service providers are the agents that often have initial contact with sex workers, a highly stigmatised population that has a fraught history with the social work profession. In this paper, I use Lipsky’s theory of street-level bureaucracy and show how social workers use professional discretion when working with this population, even as it might conflict with their personal ethics. Specifically, I focus on the dual servic…
Hybrid Models for Social Change
Community-based hybrid nonprofits, defined as organizations that combine social services with organizing or advocacy, play a crucial role at the neighborhood level. Considering their nonconformity to conventional organizational forms, they face specific challenges and advantages in achieving their combined advocacy and service mission. Using neo-institutional theory to provide context to our data, this qualitative study of 18 nonprofits working i…
The Strategic Action Field of Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
This paper looks at organizations working on issues of sex work/sex trafficking in Chicago as a strategic action field (SAF): a space where actors engage in collective action with a shared understanding of the field’s purposes, rules, and norms. Through analysis of SAFs, scholars focus on how actors intersect, manifesting in a context that simultaneously allows for reproducing the status quo, as well as producing social change. Using qualitative …
Officers Are Doing the Best They Can”
Frontline service providers are often tasked with providing services to criminalized populations, including individuals involved in the sex trade. These providers have been working to transform services to this population, proposing what they believe to be socially just responses in helping individuals in the sex trade transition from “criminals” to a “victims.” While frontline service providers have been advocating for trauma-informed and compas…
Co-production in syringe service programs
Co-production in the human services is a way of working that includes the expertise of service users in service implementation. While co-production is often considered a net positive for the co-producing organisation, this can depend on how, with whom, and to what extent co-production is conducted. This study uses qualitative interview data from 26 employees at syringe service programs (SSPs) in a midwestern US state to examine how SSPs implement…
Strategies for Cultivating Organizational Legitimacy among Core-Stigmatized Service Providers
We explore how a group of service-providing organizations have strategically engaged in actions to cultivate legitimacy among varied external stakeholders. Using the case of syringe service programs, programs that use harm reduction services to engage the population of drug users, the authors use qualitative methods to examine how these stigmatized yet increasingly accepted organizations have sought to cultivate legitimacy among the audiences tha…
Book/Media Reviews
Theresa Anasti, BOOK/MEDIA REVIEWS, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 83, No. 3, 60 Years after Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: Educational Opportunities, Disparities, Policies, and Legal Actions (Summer 2014), pp. 420-421
Survivor or Laborer
Regardless of primary population served, human service organizations are likely to come into contact with individuals who have been currently or formerly involved in the sex trade. In the United States, social workers have had a fraught history with this population, either treating them like delinquents or like victims in need of rescue. Sex worker activists in the United States continue to decry the negative treatment provided by individuals in …
Street-Level Bureaucrats and Ethical Conflicts in Service Provision to Sex Workers
Social workers and other service providers are the agents that often have initial contact with sex workers, a highly stigmatised population that has a fraught history with the social work profession. In this paper, I use Lipsky’s theory of street-level bureaucracy and show how social workers use professional discretion when working with this population, even as it might conflict with their personal ethics. Specifically, I focus on the dual servic…
Hybrid Models for Social Change
Community-based hybrid nonprofits, defined as organizations that combine social services with organizing or advocacy, play a crucial role at the neighborhood level. Considering their nonconformity to conventional organizational forms, they face specific challenges and advantages in achieving their combined advocacy and service mission. Using neo-institutional theory to provide context to our data, this qualitative study of 18 nonprofits working i…
The Strategic Action Field of Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
This paper looks at organizations working on issues of sex work/sex trafficking in Chicago as a strategic action field (SAF): a space where actors engage in collective action with a shared understanding of the field’s purposes, rules, and norms. Through analysis of SAFs, scholars focus on how actors intersect, manifesting in a context that simultaneously allows for reproducing the status quo, as well as producing social change. Using qualitative …
Officers Are Doing the Best They Can”
Frontline service providers are often tasked with providing services to criminalized populations, including individuals involved in the sex trade. These providers have been working to transform services to this population, proposing what they believe to be socially just responses in helping individuals in the sex trade transition from “criminals” to a “victims.” While frontline service providers have been advocating for trauma-informed and compas…
The (non)use of alcohol in topless establishments
This article considers current and proposed restrictions placed on the adult industry in Chicago in order to explore the attempts made through legislation to control legal forms of sex work, specifically exotic dancing and burlesque. I focus specifically on the recent debate within the city of Chicago as to whether or not alcohol should be allowed in places where women are topless. While exotic dance is often discussed as a type of exploitation a…
Good neighbors or good prisoners? Non-uniformed staff beliefs about incarcerated people influence prison social climate
We analyzed results from semi-structured interviews and participant observation with educators, clinical staff, and administrators who worked at nearly 100 different correctional facilities centrally managed by eight separate state prison systems to understand how the beliefs they hold about the life experiences and future trajectories of incarcerated people influence prison social climate. We found that staff who regard incarcerated people as pa…
“I was already in the system from the start”
The present study examines how substance-using women in the street sex trade formulate understandings of pregnancy at the intersections of healthcare, social services, and family systems in ways that reflect internalized dominant cultural assumptions about substance use, motherhood, and the street sex trade. Three primary frameworks emerged with respect to pregnancy-related decision-making as prompted by heightened scrutiny, intensified stigma, a…
Peer involvement in service provision
Human service non-profit organisations (HSNPs) looking to improve the representation of clients in the work of their organisation may decide to hire people with lived experience as peer providers. This paper looks at how HSNPs that provide services to sex workers make decisions about hiring those with lived experience of sex work as staff. To address the issue, the following questions were asked: 1) how do HSNPs make the decision to hire sex work…
Role of community-based organizations in countering carceral logics
The work of community-based organizations (CBOs), organizations that represent a particular community, can be an impetus for social change and advocacy. By drawing on the institutional entrepreneurship perspective, this study seeks to understand how CBOs attempt to challenge dominant carceral logics (referred to as a punishment-oriented mind-set) in operation across two fields: (1) the public-school system and (2) human service providers that wor…
A place-based spatial analysis of racial inequities in overdose in St. Louis County Missouri, United States
These findings suggest that places of worship, the hospitality industry, and housing authorities may be physical features of the environment that reflect social conditions that are conducive to overdose. The scaling up of harm reduction strategies could be enhanced by targeting places where features are co-located
Addressing “Idealism Exploitation” Through Unionization
Through in-depth interviews with nonprofit workers and full-time union organizers in the nonprofit sector, this qualitative study examines the causes, outcomes, and workers’ perceptions of the recent nonprofit worker unionization movement. We found that chronic low pay, substandard working conditions, and a concern for compromised services to clients were the impetus for workers’ labor organizing. Interviews revealed that existing unionization ef…
Co-production in syringe service programs
Co-production in the human services is a way of working that includes the expertise of service users in service implementation. While co-production is often considered a net positive for the co-producing organisation, this can depend on how, with whom, and to what extent co-production is conducted. This study uses qualitative interview data from 26 employees at syringe service programs (SSPs) in a midwestern US state to examine how SSPs implement…
Strategies for Cultivating Organizational Legitimacy among Core-Stigmatized Service Providers
We explore how a group of service-providing organizations have strategically engaged in actions to cultivate legitimacy among varied external stakeholders. Using the case of syringe service programs, programs that use harm reduction services to engage the population of drug users, the authors use qualitative methods to examine how these stigmatized yet increasingly accepted organizations have sought to cultivate legitimacy among the audiences tha…
The Compassionate Court? Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs
Substance Use Disorders Among Human Trafficking Victims
Background Human trafficking (HT) survivors are at risk for substance use disorder (SUD), although assessing the SUD epidemiology of HT survivors is difficult. This study used data from the 2019 to 2021 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample to estimate the prevalence of SUD for HT survivors utilizing emergency departments (ED) in the United States of America (US).Methods We included visits for patients aged 12–64 years with any International Cla…
If It’s Not Relevant to Your Diagnosis, We Don’t Need to Ask”
There is a lack of research on the impact of trauma-informed care for survivors of sex trafficking. This article examines service providers' perspectives on trauma-informed best practices for engaging survivors in service provision. Twenty-one service providers in the southwestern US participated in a virtual semi-structured interview that was approximately 1-h in length. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and data analysis consisted of…
Political science (14 obras) · Sex work and related issues (11 obras) · Public relations (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Criminology (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Business (7 obras)