Youth prostitution: A literature review

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 230-251

  Cusick, Linda ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abuse; Child; Literature; Policy; Prostitution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937382701     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.743     Document Type: Review

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