Towards a Harm-Minimising Approach to Sex Work: A Call for Decriminalisation in England and Wales

This thesis has developed a harm-minimising framework to analyse the regulation of sex work in England and Wales and propose a system of reform. In so doing, it defines the ‘harm’ in sex work as that of stigma, violence and exploitation, using this categorisation to judge the effectiveness of any (n...

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Autor principal: LANG, VICTORIA,CAROLINE,VILVEN (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
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Publicado: 2015
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