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Working girls : prostitutes, their life and social control

Australian studies in law, crime and justice

Roberta Perkins
ISBN 0 642 15877 0
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, May 1991

• 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 I : Questionnaire
• Appendix II : Methodology
• Appendix III : Prostitutes organisations
• References
• Bibliography

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.