| Project title: | Preventing Sexual Violence |
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| Project type: | Social Crime Prevention |
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| Publication: | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 33(3) Dec 2000; 341-361. |
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| Researchers/contact: | Moira Carmody and Kerry Carrington |
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| Commencement date: | Published 2000 |
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| Location: | Australia |
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| Funding body/institution: | University of Western Sydney |
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| Description of the study: | Major responses to rape prevention in the wake of feminism are considered including the preventative potential of legal measures, feminist anti-violence campaigns, men's groups, public education campaigns and state sponsored awareness campaigns. |
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| Description of the outcomes: | It is argued that sexual violence is not amenable to 'quick fix' strategies that place prevention responsibility entirely on individual men or women. While recognising that victim responsibility and individualising offenders is reflective of current global trends it is argued that the increasing reliance on such ideals is problematic when it comes to preventing sexual violence. Crime prevention measure which inform potential victims about risk and provide ways to manage this risk are seen only to be enforcing a sense of failure upon those who do not avoid sexual victimisation. Programs focused on men learning to control their alleged 'innate' violent tendencies are also limited. What is needed is the deconstruction of dominant ideologies that see male sexual violence as normal and acceptable. |
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