- Gender Studies, Popular Culture, Victorian Studies, Modern British History, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Hungarian Literature, and 34 moreVictorian Crime Fiction, Gender and Crime, Cultural Studies, Criminology, Media and Cultural Studies, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Microhistory, Gender and Sexuality, Colonialism, Carlo Ginzburg, Cyberspace, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cyberlaw, Sex and Gender, History, The Internet, Media Studies, Sexuality, New Media, Literary Theory, Digital Humanities, Citizenship, Game studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Rape and Sexual Assault Law, Rape Culture, Sexual Violence, Child Sexual Abuse, Criminal Justice History, History of Crime, History of Violence, 19th Century Britain, Infanticide, and History of Crime and Punishmentedit
- Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Tasmaniaedit
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This report examines factors associated with child sexual abuse perpetration and what it can tell us about prevention strategies. The report considers the specific dynamics of child sexual abuse and their implications in prevention and... more
This report examines factors associated with child sexual abuse perpetration and what it can tell us about prevention strategies. The report considers the specific dynamics of child sexual abuse and their implications in prevention and early intervention, especially through: identifying the risk factors and facilitators associated with various forms of perpetration mapping current prevention, early intervention and therapeutic responses assessing key points of prevention and intervention in light of the identified risk factors and facilitators of child sexual abuse. Research findings suggest that there are two broad directions that can be further developed in prevention: an integrated prevention framework based on a public health approach increase in the focus of "upstream" risk factors to address underlying determinants of sexual abuse at a population level.
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The historical examination of filicide in Australia is limited and often focuses on case studies of maternal filicides. Longitudinal trends of Australian filicide offending have focused almost exclusively on the late twentieth and early... more
The historical examination of filicide in Australia is limited and often focuses on case studies of maternal filicides. Longitudinal trends of Australian filicide offending have focused almost exclusively on the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Our study aims to fill a gap in Australian criminological knowledge about filicide. Utilising prison and Supreme Court records from 1860 and 1920, we plot the extent of filicide offending by men and women in Victoria to create a more comprehensive picture of filicide perpetration. This study also tests whether identified motives and risk factors for filicide today can be applied to historical data, to make these data accessible to criminologists studying filicide in the twenty-first century.
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... The creators of SP, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have relegated females to supporting characters as the spotlight is on four boys of South Park ... The initially positive image of the Jewish mother as the rock of her household, the... more
... The creators of SP, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have relegated females to supporting characters as the spotlight is on four boys of South Park ... The initially positive image of the Jewish mother as the rock of her household, the core, and the heart (Hyman) based on the traditions ...
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... The creators of SP, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have relegated females to supporting characters as the spotlight is on four boys of South Park ... The initially positive image of the Jewish mother as the rock of her household, the... more
... The creators of SP, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have relegated females to supporting characters as the spotlight is on four boys of South Park ... The initially positive image of the Jewish mother as the rock of her household, the core, and the heart (Hyman) based on the traditions ...
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... The creators of SP, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have relegated females to supporting characters as the spotlight is on four boys of South Park ... The initially positive image of the Jewish mother as the rock of her household, the... more
... The creators of SP, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have relegated females to supporting characters as the spotlight is on four boys of South Park ... The initially positive image of the Jewish mother as the rock of her household, the core, and the heart (Hyman) based on the traditions ...
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Significant numbers of Australian children have experienced neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse and sexual abuse. The adverse, long-term consequences of these experiences are well demonstrated in the research literature and... more
Significant numbers of Australian children have experienced neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse and sexual abuse. The adverse, long-term consequences of these experiences are well demonstrated in the research literature and recognised by the policy and practice communities.
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identifies the conceptual, policy and practice challenges that the prevention of child sexual abuse presents
presents a conceptual mapping of dynamics associated with child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation
outlines key directions that could be taken to strengthen prevention strategies
This report:
identifies the conceptual, policy and practice challenges that the prevention of child sexual abuse presents
presents a conceptual mapping of dynamics associated with child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation
outlines key directions that could be taken to strengthen prevention strategies
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Three Essex women were accused of poisoning their family members in the mid-nineteenth century. While their crimes were not out of the ordinary, the legal responses to these three women were irregular and highlight how female deviance was... more
Three Essex women were accused of poisoning their family members in the mid-nineteenth century. While their crimes were not out of the ordinary, the legal responses to these three women were irregular and highlight how female deviance was a concern to the legal system in England during the nineteenth century. Historians have embraced the possibility of studying crime and violence in order to better understand how societies and their legal systems responded to deviance (real or perceived). This paper presents the cases of the three Essex poisoners, as well as the narratives created in the courtroom to explain their deviance, and illustrates how and why criminologists should turn to historical criminal cases in order to further criminological understandings of crime and violence.
http://euc.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/25/1477370813494841.abstract
http://euc.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/25/1477370813494841.abstract
... The creators of SP, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have relegated females to supporting characters as the spotlight is on four boys of South Park ... The initially positive image of the Jewish mother as the rock of her household, the... more
... The creators of SP, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have relegated females to supporting characters as the spotlight is on four boys of South Park ... The initially positive image of the Jewish mother as the rock of her household, the core, and the heart (Hyman) based on the traditions ...
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The bucolic idyll of rural England was firmly embedded in the minds of many urbanites during the Victorian period. With the increased immigration of workers to the urban centres, and the subsequent rise in squalor, noise, pollution and... more
The bucolic idyll of rural England was firmly embedded in the minds of many urbanites during the Victorian period. With the increased immigration of workers to the urban centres, and the subsequent rise in squalor, noise, pollution and the poor in these cities, there was a nostalgia for the calm, beauty and innocence of nature and rural locales. However, there could often be a change in the language used to describe the English countryside when crime was discovered to have been committed in this place of peace and tranquillity. In Clavering in 1846, when a series of poisonings were uncovered, this village in the north of Essex was labelled by The Times as ‘ignorant and secluded’ and Essex was tarred as being wholly ‘uneducated’ (Sept. 21, 1846). In this paper I will expound how rural England was presented when newspaper accounts of crimes and executions were reported, and the resulting assumption that while rural England may have been beautiful in landscape, in comparison to urban centres, however, it was backward and a place where depraved individuals could commit crimes freely without hindrance.
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Investigations of women's offending have, in historical as well as criminological literature, bypassed women who are labelled as "old". While female offenders have traditionally been a blind spot of the criminal justice system, especially... more
Investigations of women's offending have, in historical as well as criminological literature, bypassed women who are labelled as "old". While female offenders have traditionally been a blind spot of the criminal justice system, especially prisons, older women are victims of "double invisibility"-not only their sex but their age has rendered them invisible to authorities and the public as offenders. With prisons being built with healthy, young men in mind (which young women may have been able to navigate), the physical health and medical needs of older incarcerated women was ignored, and this has continued to today. Using the Central Register of Female Prisoners from Victoria across a six-decade period from 1860 to 1920, this paper presents an analysis of the 684 prison records of women who first entered the prison system after fifty years of age and considers the physical and mental health issues faced by this prisoner cohort and responses from state and criminal justice authorities when dealing with older women's health needs and issues. We argue that feminist historical criminology offers an opportunity to shine light on those women who have often been invisible in historical and contemporary prison policies and concerns.
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This paper examines imprisonment data from Victoria between 1860 and 1920 to gather insights into the variations in incidence of women being convicted by rural versus urban courts, including close focus on the difference in types of... more
This paper examines imprisonment data from Victoria between 1860 and 1920 to gather insights into the variations in incidence of women being convicted by rural versus urban courts, including close focus on the difference in types of offences being committed in urban and rural locations. This paper also details women’s mobility between both communities as well as change in their offending profiles based on their geographic locations. Our findings suggest that while the authorities were broadly most concerned with removing disorderly and vagrant women from both urban and rural streets, rural offending had its own characteristics that differentiate it from urban offending. Therefore, this demonstrates that when examining female offending, geographic location of an offender and offence must be taken into consideration.
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The increased active participation of individuals in the creation of sexual violence narratives online, as opposed to the previously passive consumption of news stories offline, could prove problematic in ensuring justice is served.... more
The increased active participation of individuals in the creation of sexual violence narratives online, as opposed to the previously passive consumption of news stories offline, could prove problematic in ensuring justice is served. Social media allows for circumvention of the criminal justice system in response to its perceived inadequacies. With the 24-hour news cycle, the ease with which media consumers can interact with the story as it breaks online, and the manner in which social media has been used by laypersons and secondary bystanders to target victims or perpetrators before a case ever makes it to court, raises questions about how narrative construction online possibly influences people’s beliefs and understandings about sexual violence and the effect this may have for the justice system.
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Criminological studies have found that men's and women's pathways to imprisonment differ, with risk factors such as substance abuse, mental illness, socioeconomic circumstances and past victimisation more strongly associated with female... more
Criminological studies have found that men's and women's pathways to imprisonment differ, with risk factors such as substance abuse, mental illness, socioeconomic circumstances and past victimisation more strongly associated with female prisoners. However, limited quantitative or longitudinal research exists on how the risk factors associated with female offending may have shifted over time. This article investigates the criminal careers and pathways to imprisonment of 6,042 women incarcerated in Victoria between 1860 and 1920, and the risk factors associated with subsequent recidivism. The findings suggest that, while many of today's risk factors were present historically, there have been notable shifts across time.
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The use of longitudinal data from the criminal records of a sample of 6,042 female prisoners in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Victoria reveals limitations in the traditional method of examining criminality within specific offense... more
The use of longitudinal data from the criminal records of a sample of 6,042 female prisoners in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Victoria reveals limitations in the traditional method of examining criminality within specific offense categories. Investigations devoted exclusively to particular categories of women's offenses potentially obscures the extent to which women resorted to multiple forms of offending. Such versatile activity challenges conceptions of women as predominantly petty offenders by suggesting that some women were arrested for minor offenses because of their engagement in more serious crimes and their participation in criminal sub-cultures.