Regulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism? addresses the rise in sexual commerce and consumption by challenging traditional responses and offering a fresh approach to sex industry regulation

• Examines different forms of sex regulation by utilizing examples from a range of sex markets in the UK, France, USA, Australia, and India
• Theorizes the apparent paradox that the increase in punitive approaches to regulating the sex industry is fueling a rise in supply, demand, and diversification of the sex industry

Jane Scoular is Reader in Law at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.

Teela Sanders is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK.