- Griffith University, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Faculty Memberadd
- History, Criminal Law, Armed Forces and Society, Homosexuality, Queer, Sexual Violence, and 20 moreChild Sexual Abuse, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Australian History, Gay and Lesbian History, Gender and Sexuality, Gay And Lesbian Studies, LGBT Studies, History of Sexuality, Military History, Legal History, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Gender Studies, Masculinities, Social History, Child abuse and neglect, Lgbtq, History of Crime and Punishment, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sexual Abuse, and LGBT Issuesedit
- Yorick is a senior lecturer in history in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith Universi... moreYorick is a senior lecturer in history in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University and Deputy Director of the Harry Gentle Resource Centre. He is a Research Associate on the ARC-funded Laureate Prosecution Project. Yorick is interested in the twined histories of sexualities, intimate lives and institutions, criminal prosecutions and ordinary lives, and the relationship between genders, war and identities. His work has been funded by the Australian Research Council, Griffith University and the Australian Army History Unit. Yorick is currently working on his forthcoming manuscript 'Boys, sex and crime', a history of sexual cultures in the American forces in the Second World War and with Mark Finnane, an investigation of Australian courts-martial.edit
Research Interests: American History, Military History, American Studies, Gender Studies, Australian Studies, and 21 moreMasculinity Studies, Reproduction, Gay And Lesbian Studies, LGBT Issues, Australia, Feminism, Masculinities, Studies On Men And Masculinity, Australian History, War and society, Gay and Lesbian History, Abortion, Sexuality Studies, Maternity, Queer, Twentieth-Century Australian History, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Armed Forces and Society, Lesbian and Gay History, Citrizenship, and Sexualtiy Gender and National Identity
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Research Interests: American Literature, American History, Military History, American Studies, Literature, and 17 moreWar Studies, Gay And Lesbian Studies, Autobiography, Second World War, LGBT Literature, Literary History, Memoir and Autobiography, Gay and Lesbian History, Life Writing (Literature), Gay Literature, American Military History, Homosexuality, Military Studies, Literary studies, Memoir, Armed Forces and Society, and History of Homosexuality
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Historical studies of prosecution and punishment patterns for the sexual maltreatment of children are rare. Australian criminal justice histories like those elsewhere remain underdeveloped despite attention to specific areas of inquiry... more
Historical studies of prosecution and punishment patterns for the sexual maltreatment of children are rare. Australian criminal justice histories like those elsewhere remain underdeveloped despite attention to specific areas of inquiry such as gender, which bear on the subject of child victims. Serious problems of access to public archives, where materials involving children are invariably closed or otherwise strictly controlled, frustrate scholarly efforts to assess the scope and detail of the law’s response. These factors are exacerbated for institutions that had charge of children – researchers have had to wait for public inquiries such as the current Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse to open organisational policies and practices to greater scrutiny. This chapter reconsiders the popular assumption that mechanisms of prosecution and punishment for sexual offences against children are a very recent historical phenomena. While recognising that responses to the maltreatment of children are not always located in the court room, we argue that the historical volume of criminal justice responses constitute a significant index of social attitudes towards children. In that context, we review briefly some of the historical conditions for recognition of child sexual assault, the policing and justice responses that follow from its recognition, and conclude by considering associated problems of silence and invisibility.