Christchurch school of medicine study: Methodology and methods

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 159-172

  Abel, Gillian ^a   Fitzgerald, Lisa ^b   Brunton, Cheryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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