1 Ko-Lin Chin and James O. Finckenauer. Selling Sex Overseas: Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking. New York: New York University Press 2012. xi + 311 pp. ISBN: 9780814772584 (paperback). Recent international concern over the globalization of human trafficking and prostitution has yielded numbers of media reports and studies by governments and international organizations, including the United Nations, that draw attention to the deceit, coercion, debt bondage, and exploitation associated with this kind of fraudulent activity. But with limited empirically-based research and with almost no personal information from the victims of such crimes, it is difficult to ascertain the extent to which trafficking and the transnational sex industry are intertwined. Despite a genuine interest by authorities world-wide to determine what connections exist between transnational commercial sex trafficking and criminal organizations, there is a knowledge gap: the absence of hard data has made a realistic and accurate assessment of global commercial sex operations near impossible. This situation is exasperated by the fact that these same experts are well aware that the problem of human trafficking has become endemic. In this volume two Rutgers University criminologists, Ko-lin Chin and James O. Finckenauer, aim to overcome this knowledge gap, and based on the results of their intense research, conclude that the oft-cited paradigm of adult women prostitutes as victims of transnational human trafficking needs revision. Over a two-year period they probed the Chinese female commercial sex industry in Hong Kong, Macau, (Taipei) Taiwan, Bangkok (Thailand), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Singapore, Jakarta (Indonesia), Shenzhen (China), Los Angeles, and New York. They limited their investigation to one group of women only—those women from the People’s Republic of China who work in these specific geographical locations. Chin and Finckenauer interviewed 350 persons on-site: not only the sex workers themselves, but also sex ring operators, smugglers, law enforcement agents, and victim service agencies, in Mandarin Chinese. They sampled and questioned prostitutes first, and from within that group, they attempted to identify trafficking victims according to international definitions of sex trafficking crimes and victimization. They gained access to these women first through referrals, answering advertisements posted at massage parlors, bars, karaoke lounges, nightclubs, as well as responding to women working in restaurants, hotels, escort agencies, and on the streets of these ten locations.