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Jock culture has often stopped people talking about abuse.
Millions of women felt insulted by Donald Trump’s language toward women. Others overlooked it, seeing the female candidate as flawed. Here’s why this might suggest a growing health crisis for women.
We have decades of evidence showing the widespread abuse and neglect suffered by children in the out-of-home care system. The agencies responsible for allowing the abuse have little to fear.
Threats to humiliate an intimate partner by sharing explicit photos or video is an old problem with a new digital twist, a new study finds.
Africa should focus on the feasible reforms of the UN and de-emphasise its demand for improved representation on the Security Council voting reforms, given the complex politics around these issues.
A popular misconception is that most child sex offenders were once victims themselves.
Some teachers are often dismissive in their handling of sexual abuse, labelling it as ‘a bit of fun’ or repeating the old adage ‘it’s because he likes you’.
Universities Australia will on Tuesday launch a survey designed to shed light on student experiences of sexual assault and sexual harassment on campus.
Peter Dutton’s comments reinforced historically ingrained ideas about sexual assault victims as being ‘unreliable’ or ‘untrustworthy’.
The once-taboo topics of domestic violence and institutional abuse are now front-page news, but repeated reports of incest have not registered in public awareness as evidence of a serious problem.
The ‘functional immunity’ granted to UN officials made good sense when the body was founded after World War II. But as its organisational functions have expanded, so has this immunity.
We have an ever-increasing number of children and families facing complex challenges and we know next to nothing about who they are and how they are doing.
Pornography has implications for public health, but scholars need to think critically about the issue and look past rhetoric.
University campuses are prime locations for rape culture. What can be done about this reality?
How sexual attraction to a disabled body is about more than just desires of the flesh.
George Pell told the royal commission into child sex abuse the Catholic Church was predisposed not to believe children’s complaints. But, when abuse was reported, police and the courts believed them.
If you haven’t seen Oscar winner Spotlight yet, go. It tells the true story of how decades of abuse in one city was finally uncovered - followed by revelations worldwide, including in my home town.
A UN report has found that in half of 12 country studies done on child sexual exploitation during armed conflict, the arrival of peacekeeping troops resulted in a rapid rise in child prostitution.
Accountability for the violence and abuse that people with disability experience begins with recording the offences. In fact, we have long ignored crimes against vulnerable members of our community.
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Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Yale University
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Associate professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, Durham University
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PhD Student, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Associate Supervisor in Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Huddersfield
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Former Director, National Centre for Social Research
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
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Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender, Western University
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Visiting Research Fellow University of Chester, University of Chester
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Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Law, University of Birmingham
