Sex Crimes in the Fifties
$73.63
- Paperback
277 pages
- Release Date
18 July 2016
Summary
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-2017) has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of sexual offences in Australia’s past. Yet there has been little historical research into the policing, prosecution and punishment of those crimes.This book examines Australia’s treatment of sexual crimes in the 1950s, a decade well known for its political and social conservatism, its prudish views on morality, and its prescriptive gende…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522866551 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522866557 |
| Author: | Lisa Featherstone, Andy Kaladelfos |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 18 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 134mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Lisa Featherstone
Dr Lisa Featherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Australian History at the University of Queensland. Lisa has worked widely on the history of sexuality, including the monograph Let’sTalk About Sex- Histories of Sexuality in Australia from Federation to the Pill (2011). Lisa is a Chief Investigator on the ARC DP Project ‘Sexual Offences, Legal Responses, and Public Perceptions- 1880s-1980s’.Dr Amanda Kaladelfos is Research Fellow with the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship Project ‘Prosecution and the CriminalTrial in Australian History’ at the Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Australia, and Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project ‘Sexual Offences, Legal Responses, and Public Perceptions- 1880s-1980s’. Amanda’s research crosses the fields of history, law and criminology.
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