School of Historical and Philosophical Studies - Theses

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    Public perceptions of organisational offending: an analysis of attitudinal change between 1986 and 1994
    Stone, Wendy ( 1996)
    In 1986 the Australian Institute of Criminology conducted one of the most far reaching surveys of public attitudes towards crime conducted in Australia. As one part of a broader study of white collar crime, a replication of the 1986 study was undertaken in metropolitan Melbourne in 1994. This thesis focuses upon organisational crime and presents a comparison of current attitudes held by the Victorian public with those held by the Australian community in 1986. Underlying this comparison is the proposition that community attitudes towards white collar crime, and organisational crimes in particular, have hardened throughout the period. The findings of this analysis suggest that for the most serious of white collar crimes - those organisational offences leading to physical harms - community attitudes have indeed hardened in some ways. These findings raise several important implications for current judicial policy towards organisational crime, as well as white collar crime generally.
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    Sexuality, citizenship and subjectivity: a textual history of the Australian gay movement 1970-1974
    Reynolds, Robert Hugh ( 1996)
    This thesis studies the creation of gay activist subjectivities through an analysis of the early years of the gay movement in Australia, 1970-1974. Divided into two parts, the first half of this study locates the emergence of Australia's first homosexual rights organisation, the Sydney based Campaign Against Moral Persecution [CAMP], in a climate of late 1960s liberal reform. Through a close study of the texts of CAMP, this thesis charts the development of a politics of sexual identity and the idea of a public homosexuality. The activists of CAMP invented the figure of the public homosexual in a number of ways: through a challenge to medical and religious discourses which cast the homosexual as ill or immoral; the contesting of a 1960s liberal reformism which attempted to contain homosexuality to private spaces; and through a rejection of the subcultural spaces and practices of imagined past homosexualities. This thesis evaluates the political advantages of CAMP's story of a public homosexuality against its limitations and its exclusions. The second half of this thesis investigates the creation of gay subjectivities in Sydney Gay Liberation. Here the focus shifts from aspirations of liberal citizenship to the transgressive moments around the topics of consciousness raising, bisexuality, sex, gender, and play. In these moments, Gay Liberation drew upon a number of discourses - the romantic, the modern and the postmodern - in an attempt to theorise and reconstruct gay subjectivity. This thesis itself deploys a variety of analytical tools: close textual analysis; poststructuralist readings of sexual identity; and psychoanalytic understandings of subjectivity.