State violence towards sex workers

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7669, 2008, Pages 527-528

  Brooks Gordon, Belinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDOM; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DRUG MISUSE; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX WORKER; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRANSSEXUALISM; TRANSVESTISM; TUBERCULOSIS; VIOLENCE; WORKER; FEMALE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOTE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VULNERABLE POPULATION; YUGOSLAVIA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; POLICE; PROSTITUTION; TRANSVESTISM; VIOLENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 51949104304     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a908     Document Type: Editorial

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