The Program on Race, Gender and Policing at the William S.. Boyd School of Law at UNLV presents an academic panel and community discussion of how criminal law and policing impact consent and coercion in commercial sex work.

The symposium will examine carceral logics and practices that are used to police unwanted contact in sex working populations. This will include theoretical and practical impacts of criminal law and policing practices in dealing with sexual violence and sex trafficking in commercial sex.