All Outputs (8)

Supporting formerly incarcerated people before and during COVID-19: is socially distanced (re)integration possible? (2023)
Journal Article

Returning to the community after being incarcerated brings many challenges. In Victoria, Australia, a government-funded contract with non-government organisations (NGOs) allocates reintegration workers to assist with the post-release social integrati... Read More about Supporting formerly incarcerated people before and during COVID-19: is socially distanced (re)integration possible?.

Reentry support in Victoria, Australia: managing risk, or fostering agency? (2023)
Journal Article

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

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

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.

Commentary: Thaddeus Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva’s Myth of Maria (2013)
Journal Article

'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia (2009)
Journal Article

In the trafficking discourse and international law, debt-bonded sex workers have been defined as 'victims of trafficking'. The hyperexploitative contractual arrangements faced by debt-bonded sex workers may be the most common form of contemporary for... Read More about 'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.

Just choices: Representations of choice and coercion in sex work in Cambodia (2007)
Journal Article

In global discourses about sex work, the image of the 'sex slave' has been influential in constructing the view of women working in the sex industry in developing countries as 'victims'. This paper examines the perpetuation of such discourses through... Read More about Just choices: Representations of choice and coercion in sex work in Cambodia.

Sex work in Cambodia: Beyond the voluntary/forced dichotomy (2006)
Journal Article

This paper looks at the dominant voluntary/forced dichotomy shaping understandings of sex work internationally. It argues that the distinction between forced and voluntary participation in sex work cannot account for or help explain the multiple and... Read More about Sex work in Cambodia: Beyond the voluntary/forced dichotomy.