Prostitution as morality politics or why it is exceedingly difficult to design and sustain effective prostitution policy

Sexuality Research and Social Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 279-292

  Wagenaar, Hendrik ^a   Altink, Sietske ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exploitation; Morality politics; Policy implementation; Policy instruments; Prostitution; Sex worker; Trafficking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870946124     PISSN: 18689884     EISSN: 15536610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13178-012-0095-0     Document Type: Article

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