Dr Larissa Sandy is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Nottingham. Prior to joining Criminology at Nottingham, she was a Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Justice Studies at RMIT University. Larissa 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.
Experience
2021–present
Assistant Professor in Criminology, University of Nottingham
2017–2020
Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Justice Studies, RMIT University
2014–2017
Lecturer in Justice Studies, RMIT University
2012–2014
Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in Criminology, Flinders University
2009–2011
Research Fellow, ARCSHS, La Trobe University
2008–2009
Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology
Education
2007
Australian National University, PhD
2000
Curtin University, BA (Hons)
Publications
2019
“Typical scripts” and their silences: Exploring myths about sexual violence and LGBTQ people from the perspectives of support workers [co-authored with Shaez Mortimer and Anastasia Powell], Current Issues in Criminal Justice
2018
Human trafficking on the global periphery: A terrible spectacle, in the Palgrave handbook on criminology and the global South, Palgrave
2018
Sex work, in the International encyclopaedia of Anthropology, Wiley-Blackwell
2017
Globalization and gender frontiers in the Global encyclopaedia of public administration, public policy and governance, Springer
2014
Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears, Routledge
2013
International agendas and sex worker rights in Cambodia, in Social activism in South East Asia, Routledge
2012
International politics, anti-trafficking measures and sex work in Cambodia in Labour migration and trafficking in Southeast Asia: Critical perspectives, Routledge
2009
“Behind closed doors”: Women’s experiences of bonded labour in the Cambodian sex industry, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
2007
Just choices: Representations of choice and coercion in sex work in Cambodia, The Australian Journal of Anthropology
2006
Sex work in Cambodia: Beyond the voluntary/forced dichotomy, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal