Sex Crimes in the Fifties

by Amanda Kaladelfos and Lisa Featherstone

The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-2017) has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of sexual offences in Australia's past. Yet there has been little historical research into the policing, prosecution and punishment of those crimes.

This book examines Australia's treatment of sexual crimes in the 1950s, a decade well known for its political and social conservatism, its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522866557
• ISBN13: 9780522866551
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.2"