Institutional Abuse

E. Colvin1*, K. McFarlane2, A. Gerard3, A. McGrath4 1 Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University 2 Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University 3 Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University 4 School of Psychology, Charles...
  • August 19, 2016
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E. Colvin1*, K. McFarlane2, A. Gerard3, A. McGrath4 1 Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University 2 Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University 3 Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University 4 School of Psychology, Charles...
  • August 19, 2016
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M.A.Guerzoni School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia, M.A.Guerzoni@utas.edu.au Clergy-child sexual abuse and the subsequent responses of church institutions and clerical superiors has received significant academic attention over the last decade, particularly within the Roman Catholic Church.  Such scholastic inquiry...
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M.A.Guerzoni School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia, M.A.Guerzoni@utas.edu.au Clergy-child sexual abuse and the subsequent responses of church institutions and clerical superiors has received significant academic attention over the last decade, particularly within the Roman Catholic Church.  Such scholastic inquiry...
  • August 19, 2016
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T. Krone University of Canberra, tony.krone@canberra.edu.au This paper draws on the work of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and examines the degree to which institutions have been prepared to treat allegations of child sexual abuse within...
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T. Krone University of Canberra, tony.krone@canberra.edu.au This paper draws on the work of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and examines the degree to which institutions have been prepared to treat allegations of child sexual abuse within...
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P. Norden Adjunct Professor, RMIT University, peter.norden@rmit.edu.au Not since the isolation regimes of the Port Arthur Prison in the early 19th Century have such draconian penal regimes been imposed on imprisoned individuals as occurred as recently as 2013 with Prisoner X...
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S. Jenkins  The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse has sparked much public debate and controversy over the behaviour of organisations and conditions in institutions. The published case studies from the Royal Commission are illustrative of certain...
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S. Jenkins  The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse has sparked much public debate and controversy over the behaviour of organisations and conditions in institutions. The published case studies from the Royal Commission are illustrative of certain...
  • August 19, 2016
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Dr Selda Dagistanli Western Sydney University, s.dagistanli@westernsydney.edu.au Official and popular commentary, from multiple political perspectives, often seeks to pin down the role of ‘culture’ in explaining incidences of gendered violence and sexual abuse. Yet these narratives rarely, if ever, attempt to...
  • August 19, 2016
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