Home Occupation or Brothel? Selling Sex from Home in New South Wales

Urban Policy and Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-143

  Crofts, Penny ^a   Prior, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

home business; Planning; prostitution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861556682     PISSN: 08111146     EISSN: 14767244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08111146.2012.679923     Document Type: Article

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