Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Justice Studies, RMIT University
Dr Larissa Sandy is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Justice Studies at RMIT University. She specialises in sex work and human trafficking, having researched with sex workers in Australia and Asia-Pacific for almost twenty years and has published widely on the issue. Larissa has just completed a large-scale project on the career development needs of sex workers in Victoria, which included working with a team of sex worker peer researchers. Dr Sandy was a prestigious Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Criminology at Flinders University, with her work exploring Cambodia’s human trafficking laws.
Will Victoria be the first place in the world to fully decriminalise sex work?
Oct 20, 2020 13:59 pm UTC| Law
The Victorian government has just received a landmark review into the states sex work laws. This is the first large-scale review of Victorian sex work laws since 1985 and presents a huge opportunity for change. With...
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