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Dr Li Eriksson and Amanda Kaladelfos
Gender, Violence, and Immigration: Analysing Australian Sex Crimes Trials from the 1950s
Presented by Dr Amanda Kaladelfos, AEL Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security
Based upon an historical analysis of Australian sex crimes trials from the 1950s—a decade of large-scale immigration to Australia—this paper analyses how conceptions of gender, ethnicity, and violence influenced the prosecution of trials involving immigrants. First, this paper explores the wider political dimensions of this issue, examining 1950s federal and state government inquiries into immigrants’ criminal offending and the attention these studies gave to gender violence. Second, it examines the influence of social and cultural preconceptions about gender violence within ethnic communities on criminal trials where immigrants appeared as victims or offenders. Overall, the paper suggests that gender violence played a much more important role in the state’s treatment of immigrants than has previously been recognised.
Dr. Amanda Kaladelfos holds the Arts, Education and Law Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Griffith University. Amanda is working on two projects: the policing and prosecution of homicide in twentieth century Australia and a collaborative project with Lisa Featherstone from the University of Newcastle on the treatment of sex crime in the 1950s.
Maternal and paternal filicide: Case studies from the Australian Homicide Project
Presented by Dr Li Eriksson, Associate Lecturer
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
The literature suggests that maternal and paternal filicide may be associated with different motives and situational contexts. The Australian Homicide Project provides a unique opportunity to explore these issues. The data was collected between 2010 and 2013 through interviews with individuals convicted of murder or manslaughter across a number of states and territories in Australia. These interviews provide detailed information on the developmental background of the perpetrators themselves, as well as motives and situational contexts of the homicide incidents.
Dr Li Eriksson is an Associate Lecturer with the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. She was awarded her PhD in May 2013 for her research examining differences between males who kill their intimate partners and males who kill others. Her research forms part of the Australian Homicide Project, which is a national ARC Discovery project examining developmental and situational pathways to homicide.
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