Sexual Offences, Legal Responses and Public Perceptions: 1880s-1980s

性犯罪、法律回应和公众看法：1880 年代至 1980 年代

• 批准号: DP150101798
• 负责人: Prof Lisa Featherstone
• 金额: $ 14.96万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-07-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150101798
• 关键词: Sexual; Offences; Legal; Responses; Public

Testimony of sexual abuse before the current Royal Commission has exposed the historic neglect and cover-up of institutional offences. Yet, to unearth the deeper and wider dimensions of sexual offending requires scholarly historical analysis. This project aims to use qualitative and quantitative analysis to track how and why certain forms of sexual behaviour sparked public concern and provoked legal responses and public inquiries from the 1880s to the 1980s. The systematic examination of these patterns through archival and published documents is intended to test the relation between shifting community and political concerns and the conduct of criminal trials.

在当前的皇家委员会面前的性虐待证词暴露了对机构犯罪的历史性忽视和掩盖。然而，要挖掘性犯罪更深层次和更广泛的层面，需要进行学术性的历史分析。该项目的目的是利用定性和定量分析来跟踪1880年代至1980年代某些形式的性行为如何以及为什么引起公众关注并引起法律的反应和公众询问。通过档案和出版的文件对这些模式进行系统的研究，目的是检验不断变化的社区和政治关切与刑事审判之间的关系。