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Barriers and opportunities for prison services in developing reintegrative pathways for justice-involved people subjected to MSHT exploitation (2024)
Journal Article
Sandy, L., Snowden, A., Tangen, J., & Gardner, A. (2024). Barriers and opportunities for prison services in developing reintegrative pathways for justice-involved people subjected to MSHT exploitation. Prison Service Journal, 20-29

Vulnerable people who are subjected to modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) exploitation and become justice-involved, face complex challenges in both recovering from their experiences and achieving ongoing protection. An evaluation of internat... Read More about Barriers and opportunities for prison services in developing reintegrative pathways for justice-involved people subjected to MSHT exploitation.

LGB women and sex work (2024)
Book Chapter
Sandy, L., & Dwyer, A. (2024). LGB women and sex work. In The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies. (Second Edition). SAGE Publications

Reentry support in Victoria, Australia: managing risk, or fostering agency? (2023)
Journal Article
Kennedy, K., Sandy, L., & Martinovic, M. (2023). Reentry support in Victoria, Australia: managing risk, or fostering agency?. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 62(1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509674.2022.2158984

More than half of Australia’s prison population have experienced prior incarceration. Factors such as homelessness, mental illness, and poverty compound the challenges of reentry. Reentry support in Victoria, Australia is state funded, yet delivered... Read More about Reentry support in Victoria, Australia: managing risk, or fostering agency?.

‘It’s not designed for women at all’: exploring service providers’ perspectives of working in the Victorian criminal justice system (2020)
Journal Article
Franich, G., Sandy, L., & Stone, U. (2021). ‘It’s not designed for women at all’: exploring service providers’ perspectives of working in the Victorian criminal justice system. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 33(2), 211-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2020.1837713

Gender, crime, incarceration, mental health and trauma have a complex history of interaction. This project aimed to explore service providers’ experiences of supporting incarcerated women with a mental illness in Victoria, Australia. Data collection... Read More about ‘It’s not designed for women at all’: exploring service providers’ perspectives of working in the Victorian criminal justice system.

‘Typical scripts’ and their silences: exploring myths about sexual violence and LGBTQ people from the perspectives of support workers (2019)
Journal Article
Mortimer, S., Powell, A., & Sandy, L. (2019). ‘Typical scripts’ and their silences: exploring myths about sexual violence and LGBTQ people from the perspectives of support workers. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 31(3), 333-348. https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2019.1639287

Sexism, heterosexism and cissexism shape what is visible and knowable about sexual violence for LGBTQ people. While there is a plethora of research into ‘rape myths’ as they pertain to cisgender women’s experiences of sexual violence perpetrated by c... Read More about ‘Typical scripts’ and their silences: exploring myths about sexual violence and LGBTQ people from the perspectives of support workers.

Sex work (2018)
Book Chapter
SANDY, L. Sex work. In H. Callan (Ed.), International encyclopaedia of Anthropology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1712

Sex work is a highly contested, deeply moral, and politicized terrain. This entry examines the nature of anthropological knowledge about sex work and the ways of knowing, seeing, and communicating about sexual commerce. It discusses the sex work and... Read More about Sex work.

Human Trafficking on the Global Periphery: A Terrible Spectacle (2018)
Book Chapter
Sandy, L. (2018). Human Trafficking on the Global Periphery: A Terrible Spectacle. In K. Carrington, R. Hogg, J. Scott, & M. Sozzo (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South (347-367). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65021-0_18

In mainstream criminological research, human trafficking has been constructed as a form of transnational organized crime, with the institutionalization of this approach reflected in international criminal law. Based on ethnographic research and secon... Read More about Human Trafficking on the Global Periphery: A Terrible Spectacle.