“…Previously, a body of feminist studies on crime were conducted in the prison environment (see Bailey, 2013;Chui and Gelsthorpe, 2004;Comack, 1999;McCorkel, 2003) and qualitative approaches have been commonly adopted (see for example Bosworth, 1999;Bosworth et al, 2005;Ham and Gerard, 2014;Pallot et al, 2012;Price, 2012). Here, the empirical work was undertaken in a Chinese female prison and semi-structured interviews were used to gather the female sex work organisers' narratives and biographies.…”