1st Edition
Examining the Past and Shaping the Future The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Preface
Katie Wright, Shurlee Swain and Kathleen McPhillips
1. Introduction: Bringing Child Sexual Assault into Public Discourse— The Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission
Katie Wright and Shurlee Swain
2. Institutional Abuse: A Long History
Shurlee Swain
3. “Children in a Terrible State”: Understandings of Trauma and Child Sexual Assault in 1970s and 1980s Australia
Lisa Featherstone
4. Challenging Institutional Denial: Psychological Discourse, Therapeutic Culture and Public Inquiries
Katie Wright
5. Sexual Abuse as the Core Transgression of Childhood Innocence: Unintended Consequences for Care Leavers
Frank Golding
6. Inequalities of Redress: Australia’s National Redress Scheme for Institutional Abuse of Children
Kathleen Daly
7. “I Fought. I Screamed. I Bit”: The Assertion of Rights Within Historic Abuse Inquiry Transcripts
Fiona Davis
8. “Soul Murder”: Investigating Spiritual Trauma at the Royal Commission
Kathleen McPhillips
9. Abuse and Cruelty in Religious Bureaucracy: The Case of the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle
Michael Salter
Biography
Katie Wright is Associate Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne.
Shurlee Swain is Emeritus Professor at the Australian Catholic University.
Kathleen McPhillips is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle.
