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"" Getting Past the Pimp presents a clear, cohesive, soundly researched, and important contribution to scholarship in sex work studies. Placing sex workers and third parties in conversation with one another produces especially rich and complex findings and mitigates effectively against the stigmatizing gender and race dynamics that have limited sex workers' agency and undermined their voices in this field of study."" --Shawna Ferris, associate professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program, University of Manitoba "" Getting Past the Pimp is a crucial body of work in its presentation of the issues that both sex workers and third parties face as they navigate within this stigmatized and criminalized area. The authors never idealize sex work, or exaggerate their findings. Instead, they follow the evidence, acknowledging, for example, that abusive managers exist, and demonstrating how blanket criminalization, in fact, makes it harder for sex workers to leave dangerous situations, or access protection or justice."" --Ummni Khan, associate professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University

Getting Past the Pimp is a crucial body of work in its presentation of the issues that both sex workers and third parties face as they navigate within this stigmatized and criminalized area. The authors never idealize sex work, or exaggerate their findings. Instead, they follow the evidence, acknowledging, for example, that abusive managers exist, and demonstrating how blanket criminalization, in fact, makes it harder for sex workers to leave dangerous situations, or access protection or justice. - Ummni Khan, associate professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University Getting Past the Pimp presents a clear, cohesive, soundly researched, and important contribution to scholarship in sex work studies. Placing sex workers and third parties in conversation with one another produces especially rich and complex findings and mitigates effectively against the stigmatizing gender and race dynamics that have limited sex workers' agency and undermined their voices in this field of study. - Shawna Ferris, associate professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program, University of Manitoba

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Chris Bruckert is Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Colette Parent is a professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.

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