More than 15 years have passed since the law regarding sex workers in New Zealand has changed. As a model it has been endorsed as best practice by international organisations, leading scholars and sex worker-led organisations. Yet in some corners, speculation is ongoing regarding its impacts on the ground. Written by an international group of experts, this groundbreaking collection provides the much needed in-depth research into how decriminalisation is playing out in sex workers' lives and how different groups of sex workers are experiencing it, while uncovering the challenges and tensions that remain to be negotiated in this field. Using the evidence from New Zealand, it makes an invaluable contribution to the international debates regarding sex work laws and the global struggle to realise sex workers' rights.

About the Author
Lynzi Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington. Gillian Abel is Professor and Head of the Department of Population Health at the University of Otago.


Book Information
ISBN 9781529205817
Author Cherida Fraser
Format Paperback
Page Count 244
Imprint Bristol University Press
Publisher Bristol University Press