CRIM3004 Victimology

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- Crime, Victims and Policy: International Contexts, Local Experiences (ch. 1)
- Arresting Incarceration : Pathways Out of Indigenous Imprisonment (ch. 2 & 5)
- Crime, Criminality and Criminal Justice eBook ( ch.4)
- Revisiting the 'Ideal Victim'
- Victims and the Criminal Trial (ch.3)
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victims colonialism Aboriginal Australians
victims colonization Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal victimisation colonialism Australia
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aborig* AND colonial* AND victim*
colonial AND stolen generation
victims colonisation

National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (Australia). (1997). Bringing them home: report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

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- Decolonising indigenous victimisation
- Indigenous challenges for southern criminology + Cunneen
- Indigenous peoples, criminology, and criminal justice
- Understanding the Impact of Historical Trauma Due to Colonization on the Health and Well-Being of Indigenous Young Peoples
- Crime and colonisation in Australia's Torres Strait Islands
- Indigenous victimisation and homicide in Australia: a retrospective review
- “They were treating me like a dog”: The colonial continuum of state harms against indigenous children in detention in the Northern Territory, Australia
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- Framing the Rape Victim : Gender and Agency Reconsidered (ch. 1 and any other chapter which may be useful).
- Revisiting the 'Ideal Victim' : Developments in Critical Victimology (ch. 12)
- Handbook on Sexual Violence (ch. 7, other parts of this book if useful
- Rape Work : Victims, Gender, and Emotions in Organization and Community Context (ch. 3)
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psychological versus physical impact rape
"psychological distress" sexual assault
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- Barriers to Reporting Sexual Victimization

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"sexual assault victims" AND injury

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- Rape Politics, Policies and Practice
- The role of “real rape” and “real victim” stereotypes in the police reporting practices of sexually assaulted women
- Social reactions to rape victims: Healing and hurtful effects on psychological and physical health outcomes
- The costs of rape
- The psychological impact of rape victims
- The ethical obligations of defence counsel in sexual assault cases
- Narratives of force, resistance and mistaken belief in consent in South Australian rape
- Affirmative consent and the mistake of fact excuse in Western Australian Rape Law
- 'Rape myths' and a 'reasonable belief' of consent R v Lazarus [2017] NSWCCA 279
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Published by the Victorian Law Reform Commission.

KPMG & RMIT University’s Centre for Innovative Justice. (2023). Exploring justice system experiences of complainants in sexual offence matters: An interview study. BOCSAR.

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intimate partner violence

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- Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives (ch. 2 and any other chapter which may be interesting)
- Violence Against LGBTQ+ Persons : Research, Practice, and Advocacy
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same sex AND domestic violence

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- Intimate partner violence among sexual minorities: Predicting police officer arrest decisions

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- Gender, context and constraint: Framing family violence in Victoria

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- Are Australian public discourses on intimate partner violence LGBTIQ inclusive?
- "Family violence in an LGBTIQ context" (when searching for this include the quote marks)
- A systematic review on LGBTIQ Intimate Partner Violence from a Western perspective
- Re-theorizing intimate partner violence through post-structural feminism, queer theory, and the sociology of gender
- Queering desistance: Chrononormativity, afterwardsness and young men's sexual intimate partner violence
- Gay men and intimate partner violence: A gender analysis
- Dangerous, Corrosive and Cruel but not Illegal’: Legal help-seeking Behaviours Amongst LGBTQA+Domestic and Family Violence Victim-survivors Experiencing Coercive Control in Australia
- Naming and recognition of intimate partner violence and family of origin violence among LGBTQ communities in Australia
- LGBTIQ CALD people's experiences of intimate partner violence: a systematic literature review
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Family, domestic and sexual violence in Australia: continuing the national story 2019.

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- The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice (see ch. 30)
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- Inequalities of Redress: Australia's National Redress Scheme for Institutional Abuse of Children
- How do Jewish communities respond to manifestations of institutional child sexual abuse?

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- The Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
- The Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse and the Roman Catholic Church
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- Bad apples, bad barrel: Exploring institutional responses to child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in Australia
- Inequalities of redress: Australia's national redress scheme for institutional abuse of children
- Unravelling redress for institutional abuse of children in Australia
- Responsibility and redress: theorising gender justice in the context of Catholic clerical child sexual abuse in Ireland and Australia (select 'all 9 articles' and click: [PDF] unsw.edu.au]
- Giving voice to narratives of institutional sex abuse
- Giving voice to the survivors of childhood institutional abuse
- High profile offenders, institutional sexual abuse and collective complicity
- The Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
- Commanding men, governing masculinities: Military institutional abuse and organizational reform in the Australian armed forces
- Why didn't they intervene? Examining the role of guardianship in preventing institutional child sexual abuse
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Written and published by the Victorian Law Reform Commission, 2016.

Legal and Social Issues Committee. (2022). Inquiry into Victoria’s criminal justice system: Report. Parliament of Victoria.
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Victims of Crime Commissioner. (2023, Novermber). Silenced and sidelined:Systemic inquiry into victim participation in the justice system.

Legal Affairs and Safety Committee. (2023, May). Inquiry into support provided
to victims of crime. Parliament of Queensland.

KPMG & RMIT University’s Centre for Innovative Justice. (2023). Exploring justice system experiences of complainants in sexual offence matters: An interview study. BOCSAR.