Crystal Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice-City University of New York. Her research explores contemporary meanings around gender, sex, sexuality, social justice, and inequalities through the study of sex work and anti-sex trafficking policy and advocacy. She is co-author of "The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex, and Sin in the New American Heartland" (Routledge, 2010), an ethnographic exploration of the only legal sale of sex in the country, Nevada’s rural brothels.