Introduction: facing the challenge -- Understanding colonisation and trauma -- Patriarchy, and women and children's oppression -- A decade of government reports and inquiries -- The criminal justice response to child sexual assault -- Close to home: Noongars taking a stand in the courts -- Looking forward: Aboriginal victims at the centre -- Knowing from the heart
Summary
Hannah McGlades new book bravely addresses the complex and fraught issue of Aboriginal child abuse. She argues that Aboriginal child sexual assault has been formed within the entrenched societal forces of racism, colonisation and patriarchy, yet cast in the Australian public domain as an Aboriginal problem, with controversial government responses critiqued as racist and paternalistic. McGlade highlights that non-Aboriginal society has yet to acknowledge the traumatic impacts of the sexual assault on Aboriginal children which was part and parcel of the European project of civilisation. She provides detailed analysis of the legal systems response
Analysis
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy
Aboriginal children
Aboriginal culture
Aborigines
All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia)
Australian
Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia)
Cases (Law)
Child abuse
Child care, child and youth welfare (Australia)
Child sexual abuse
Criminal justice
Human rights
Interstate comparisons
Victims of crime
Notes
Author is a resident of W.A
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
English
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