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Sex Crimes in the Fifties
Lisa Featherstone
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The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of sexual assault in Australia’s past. Yet we still have little knowledge of the policing, prosecution and punishment of sexual crimes in the past. Sex Crimes in the Fifties examines this history by investigating Australia in the 1950s. The 1950s has remained a decade with a nostalgic reputation for upholding the sanctity of the nuclear family. Fewer remember that it was this same decade that saw the sharpest rise in Australian history of arrests and prosecution of sexual assault and was ... Read more
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of sexual assault in Australia’s past. Yet we still have little knowledge of the policing, prosecution and punishment of sexual crimes in the past. Sex Crimes in the Fifties examines this history by investigating Australia in the 1950s. The 1950s has remained a decade with a nostalgic reputation for upholding the sanctity of the nuclear family. Fewer remember that it was this same decade that saw the sharpest rise in Australian history of arrests and prosecution of sexual assault and was ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Melbourne University Press Australia
Number of pages
255
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
Melbourne, Australia
ISBN
9780522866551
SKU
V9780522866551
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About Lisa Featherstone
Dr Lisa Featherstone is Senior Lecturer in Australian History at the University of Queensland. Dr Andy Kaladelfos is an historian and Research Fellow with the ARC Laureate Fellowship Project ‘Prosecution and the Criminal Trial in Australian History’ at Griffith University, Australia.
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