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This edited collection brings together leading and emerging
scholars in the important field of sexual violence scholarship. The
last 10 years have witnessed an international reckoning on sexual
violence, typified in the mainstream imagination by the #MeToo
movement, acknowledgement of the violence of university campus
life, and the overdue recognition of the enduring harms of child
sexual abuse. While the state has been forced to respond through
law and other political processes, at times revealing its agility
and at other times its archaic investment in the past, much of the
real work responding to sexual violence and abuse has taken place
within communities, and in the personal responses of the
individuals writing the scripts of their experiences. This volume
explores the nuances of these individual experiences and considers
how they are shaped and reflected by intersecting axes of power
including gender, race, class, age and able-bodied status. It
reflects on law and law reform in the area and suggests new modes
and frames through which to explain and understand sexual violence
and institutional responses to it. Debates within this contested
personal and political arena do not map onto longstanding binaries
of liberal and radical feminism, nor conservative and progressive
politics. This interdisciplinary volume traces that murky terrain
and features some of the leading international scholars writing on
sexual violence in English today. This book will appeal to scholars
and students across the broad disciplines of law and legal studies;
criminology; gender studies; political science and sociology.
1. This book has a multi-disciplinary market, across criminology,
law, socio-legal studies, history and social work. 2. This book has
potential as supplementary reading across a range of popular
teaching topics in criminology and law, including sexual abuse,
victimology, comparative criminal justice, law and gender, and
socio-legal studies.
In recent years the sexual abuse of children in religious
institutions has gripped the Western world, as churches,
governments and civil society attempt to come to terms with the
magnitude of widespread historical abuses. Questions continue to be
asked about why it is that perpetrators were able to offend
repeatedly and with impunity; what is it about institutions that
facilitate or foster abuse; and why have survivors of abuse often
been treated inadequately by diverse national and international
justice and political systems throughout the last century? This
volume makes a significant contribution to international
understandings of the vexed and sensitive 'wicked problem' of child
sexual abuse in religious institutions. The chapters in this volume
are written from a range of feminist disciplinary responses,
including law, criminology, anthropology and history. Together,
they provide important historical context for the current social
and political interest in clerical sex crimes. They examine
political and legal avenues for redress for survivors of these
crimes and critically examine the ways in which church cultures
position clergy and clergy offenders in relation to victims. The
chapters originally published in a special issue of the Australian
Feminist Law Journal.
In recent years the sexual abuse of children in religious
institutions has gripped the Western world, as churches,
governments and civil society attempt to come to terms with the
magnitude of widespread historical abuses. Questions continue to be
asked about why it is that perpetrators were able to offend
repeatedly and with impunity; what is it about institutions that
facilitate or foster abuse; and why have survivors of abuse often
been treated inadequately by diverse national and international
justice and political systems throughout the last century? This
volume makes a significant contribution to international
understandings of the vexed and sensitive 'wicked problem' of child
sexual abuse in religious institutions. The chapters in this volume
are written from a range of feminist disciplinary responses,
including law, criminology, anthropology and history. Together,
they provide important historical context for the current social
and political interest in clerical sex crimes. They examine
political and legal avenues for redress for survivors of these
crimes and critically examine the ways in which church cultures
position clergy and clergy offenders in relation to victims. The
chapters originally published in a special issue of the Australian
Feminist Law Journal.
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