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Australian studies in law, crime and justice
Working girls : prostitutes, their life and social control
Roberta Perkins
ISBN 0 642 15877 0
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1991
Abstract
An analysis of prostitution laws throughout Australia are presented in this book as Roberts discusses the need for the decriminalisation of prostitution. Detailed findings from a survey of Sydney prostitutes and excerpts from in-depth interviews are included. Perkins also reviews a vast literature on the subject of prostitution.
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 : Sex workers or scarlet women?
- Chapter 2 : Control, regulation and legislation
- Chapter 3 : The social lives of prostitutes
- Chapter 4 : The working lives of prostitutes
- Chapter 5 : The prostitutes' response
- Appendix 1 : Questionnaire
- Appendix 2 : Methodology
- Appendix 3 : Prostitutes organisations
- References
- Bibliography