How crime-based legal regimes shape sexual harm: Sex work, consent and vulnerability.
Crime-based and carceral legal regimes shape sexual harm by structuring how consent is negotiated, enforced and recognized. Using a social harm framework, this study examines sex work not as an exceptional case but as a critical site for analysing how crime-based governance operates through the inte...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Criminology Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 767 - 787 |
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