Journal article
Preventing Sexual Violence?
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol.33(3), pp.341-361
2000
Abstract
This article critically assesses the main social policy responses to preventing rape following much feminist struggle to make sexual violence a public matter of legitimate concern. It considers the preventative potential of legal measures, anti-violence campaigns waged by feminist and men's groups in the US and Australia, public education campaigns in Schools and Universities, and public awareness campaigns sponsored by the state. We argue that sexual violence is not amenable to quick fix strategies that place responsibility for prevention entirely on individual men or women. While we recognise that responsibilising victims and individualising offenders is consistent with wider global shifts in social policy calling upon individuals to manage their own risk, we argue that the increasing reliance on such neo-liberal social policy is especially problematic in preventing rape. The paper suggests ways to resist this which place greater emphasis on the promotion of sexual ethics; the eroticisation of consent; the reinvention of the norms of romance to include both these, and the complete separation of the psycho-social-symbolic connections between sex and violence, and ultimately the re-evaluation of the cultural expectations of masculinity and femininity.
Details
- Title
- Preventing Sexual Violence?
- Authors
- Moira Carmody (Author) - Western Sydney UniversityKerry Carrington (Author) - Western Sydney University
- Publication details
- Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol.33(3), pp.341-361
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- DOI
- 10.1177/000486580003300306
- ISSN
- 1837-9273
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99651493902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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