Responding to Sexual Harm: An Australian Historical Criminology Approach

尽管从20世纪70年代开始持续的干预，性伤害在澳大利亚是一个巨大的问题。该项目侧重于当代改革历史，旨在了解社会，政治，法律和文化背景如何塑造性伤害的经验和概念。该项目预计将产生有关近期历史改革对不同社区影响的重要知识，推进历史犯罪学的混合方法和共同设计方法，并通过培训新的主题问题专家团队提高澳大利亚的研究能力。通过了解过去改革的影响，研究结果将为今后的改革和应对性伤害提供重要的信息。

Despite sustained interventions from the 1970s onwards, sexual harm is a problem of enormous magnitude within Australia. The project focuses on contemporary histories of reform, aiming to understand how social, political, legal and cultural contexts have shaped experiences and conceptualisations of sexual harm. This project expects to generate vital knowledge on the impacts of recent historical reforms on diverse communities, advance mixed methods and co-design approaches in historical criminology, and enhance Australia’s research capacity by training a new team of topic matter experts. By understanding the impacts of past reform, findings should provide significant benefits in informing future reforms and responses to sexual harm.