Larissa Sandy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larissa Sandy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandy |
| SIGNATURE | SANDY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9341-1711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Human trafficking and probation practice: A scoping review of empirical research
In addressing human trafficking, probation services play a key role in identifying victims, providing support, working to prevent exploitation and reduce the potential for re-exploitation. In a world-first scoping review, this paper maps emerging empirical research on probation practices with justice-involved people subjected to exploitation and identifies gaps in research to inform policy and practice
Reconceptualizing Exiting and Career Development in Sex Work: Work Like Any Other
Supporting formerly incarcerated people before and during Covid-19: Is socially distanced (re)integration possible
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 integration process. In 2020, we interviewed reintegration workers to explore how they performed their roles before and during the COVID-19 restrictions. The key finding was that building rapport to tailor sup…
It’s not designed for women at all’: Exploring service providers’ perspectives of working in the Victorian criminal justice system
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 involved in-depth interviews with service providers, and data were analysed using thematic analysis. The results of the analysis revealed that service providers valued holistic and trauma-informed mod…
Typical scripts’ and their silences: Exploring myths about sexual violence and LGBTQ people from the perspectives of support workers
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 cisgender men, comparatively little research examines how myths and stereotypes about sexual violence might impact LGBTQ victims/survivors. This article draws from 29 interviews with sexual assault sup…
Sex Work
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 feminism debates, focusing on abolitionist feminism and sex‐work feminism and some major criticisms of these perspectives, and considers emotions in sex‐work research as well as the more practical asp…
Women and Sex Work in Cambodia: Blood, Sweat and Tears
Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the phenomenon is so widely tolerated. It outlines the background of the French colonial period, with its filles malades, considers the contemporary legal framework, and analyses the motivations for sex work, examining in particular how women becom…
Women and Sex Work in Cambodia: Blood, Sweat and Tears
Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the phenomenon is so widely tolerated. It outlines the background of the French colonial period, with its filles malades, considers the contemporary legal framework, and analyses the motivations for sex work, examining in particular how women becom…
Molland, Sverre: The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong
Anthropos , Seite 318 - 319
Commentary: Thaddeus Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva’s Myth of Maria
Behind Closed Doors: Debt-Bonded Sex Workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia
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 forced labour practices in the modern industry. However, in this paper, I present women's individual experiences working under indenture in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. I do so because women's narratives rai…
Just Choices: Representations of Choice and Coercion in Sex Work in Cambodia
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 powerful lobbying groups and socially conservative governments. It argues that frameworks that situate women working in the Cambodian sex industry through a singular identity of ‘victim’ or ‘agent’ a…
Sex Work in Cambodia: Beyond the Voluntary/Forced Dichotomy
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 contradictory subjectivities some women embrace and the constrained agency they exhibit in sex work. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, this pap…
Sex Work in Cambodia: Beyond the Voluntary/Forced Dichotomy
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 contradictory subjectivities some women embrace and the constrained agency they exhibit in sex work. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, this pap…
Behind Closed Doors: Debt-Bonded Sex Workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia
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 forced labour practices in the modern industry. However, in this paper, I present women's individual experiences working under indenture in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. I do so because women's narratives rai…
Sex Work in Cambodia: Beyond the Voluntary/Forced Dichotomy
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 contradictory subjectivities some women embrace and the constrained agency they exhibit in sex work. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, this pap…
Just Choices: Representations of Choice and Coercion in Sex Work in Cambodia
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 powerful lobbying groups and socially conservative governments. It argues that frameworks that situate women working in the Cambodian sex industry through a singular identity of ‘victim’ or ‘agent’ a…
Behind Closed Doors: Debt-Bonded Sex Workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia
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 forced labour practices in the modern industry. However, in this paper, I present women's individual experiences working under indenture in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. I do so because women's narratives rai…
Commentary: Thaddeus Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva’s Myth of Maria
Women and Sex Work in Cambodia: Blood, Sweat and Tears
Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the phenomenon is so widely tolerated. It outlines the background of the French colonial period, with its filles malades, considers the contemporary legal framework, and analyses the motivations for sex work, examining in particular how women becom…
Molland, Sverre: The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong
Anthropos , Seite 318 - 319
Women and Sex Work in Cambodia: Blood, Sweat and Tears
Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the phenomenon is so widely tolerated. It outlines the background of the French colonial period, with its filles malades, considers the contemporary legal framework, and analyses the motivations for sex work, examining in particular how women becom…
Sex Work
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 feminism debates, focusing on abolitionist feminism and sex‐work feminism and some major criticisms of these perspectives, and considers emotions in sex‐work research as well as the more practical asp…
Typical scripts’ and their silences: Exploring myths about sexual violence and LGBTQ people from the perspectives of support workers
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 cisgender men, comparatively little research examines how myths and stereotypes about sexual violence might impact LGBTQ victims/survivors. This article draws from 29 interviews with sexual assault sup…
It’s not designed for women at all’: Exploring service providers’ perspectives of working in the Victorian criminal justice system
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 involved in-depth interviews with service providers, and data were analysed using thematic analysis. The results of the analysis revealed that service providers valued holistic and trauma-informed mod…
Supporting formerly incarcerated people before and during Covid-19: Is socially distanced (re)integration possible
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 integration process. In 2020, we interviewed reintegration workers to explore how they performed their roles before and during the COVID-19 restrictions. The key finding was that building rapport to tailor sup…
Reconceptualizing Exiting and Career Development in Sex Work: Work Like Any Other
Human trafficking and probation practice: A scoping review of empirical research
In addressing human trafficking, probation services play a key role in identifying victims, providing support, working to prevent exploitation and reduce the potential for re-exploitation. In a world-first scoping review, this paper maps emerging empirical research on probation practices with justice-involved people subjected to exploitation and identifies gaps in research to inform policy and practice
Sex work and related issues (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Sex work (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Cambodian History and Society (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)