Wild guesses and conflated meanings? Estimating the size of the sex worker population in Britain

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 703-719

  Cusick, Linda ^a   Kinnell, Hilary ^a   Brooks Gordon, Belinda ^a   Campbell, Rosie ^a  

^a UK Network of Sex Work Projects   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hidden population; Policy; Prevalence; Prostitution

Indexed keywords

POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; PROSTITUTION; TRAFFICKING;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350441371     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018309341906     Document Type: Article

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