The media and the prostitution reform act

Taking the Crime out of Sex Work: New Zealand Sex Workers' Fight for Decriminalisation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 197-216

  Fitzgerald, Lisa ^a   Abel, Gillian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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