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Conceptualising and categorising child abuse inquiries: From damage control to foregrounding survivor testimony
Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. (The Age of Inquiry)
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. (The Age of Inquiry)
Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (The Age of Inquiry)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1090-9798
2018 (English)In: Journal of Historical Sociology, ISSN 0952-1909, E-ISSN 1467-6443, Vol. 31, no 3, p. 282-296Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Testimony before inquiries into out-of-home carethat have taken place in many countries over the last twenty years has severelydisrupted received ideas about the quality of care given to children in thepast. Evidence of the widespread abuse of children presented before recentinquiries internationally gives rise to the question: why didn’t we know? Partof the answer lies in the changing forms and functions of inquiries, whoseinterests they serve, how they are organised and how they gather evidence. Usingas a case study, a survey of historical abuse inquiries in Australia, this articleexplores the shift to victim and survivor testimony and in so doing offers anew way of conceptualising and categorising historical child abuse inquiries.It focuses less on how inquiries are constituted or governed, and insteadadvances an historically contextualised approach that foregrounds the issue of who speaks and who is heard.

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John Wiley & Sons, 2018. Vol. 31, no 3, p. 282-296
Keywords [en]
inquiry, historical child abuse, royal commission
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Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology) History Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-142781DOI: 10.1111/johs.12176ISI: 000444543100004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85031499947OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-142781DiVA, id: diva2:1154595
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La Trobe University's ‘Transforming Human Societies’ Research Focus AreaVanvårdsutredningar i ett komparativt perspektiv: bidrag till samhällsvårdade barns internationella historia. FORTE 2011-0251
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Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2011-0251Available from: 2017-11-03 Created: 2017-11-03 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved

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