Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100801

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE140100801

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Boys and sexual abuse: rethinking victim and offender categories. Histories of child sexual abuse often ignore boys. This project investigates the socio-legal processes that designate boys as sexual victims, sexual offenders and sexual agents; it explores how boys occupy multiple categories or slip between them. It uses legal and cultural evidence in Australia and the United Kingdom between 1870 and 1930 to rethink the formation of victim and offender categories. Comparing policy and practice across jurisdictions can reveal how frameworks of knowledge magnify and erase certain crimes and the people who perpetrate them. These findings will refine our understanding of what child sexual abuse is, who it affects and how we might adjust our modern forms of policing and intervention to deal with it.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-04-2014

End Date: 23-09-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $382,248.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Criminology not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Australia's Past | Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Criminology not elsewhere classified | Historical Studies | Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified | Understanding Australia's Past

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