Becoming an Ex–Sex Worker: Making Transitions Out of a Deviant Career

feminist criminology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-95

  Sanders, Teela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

desistance; deviant career; exiting; sex work; transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449474769     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085106294845     Document Type: Article

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