Abstract
On 29 July 2001, the Sun-Herald had a front-page story which headlined, '70 girls attacked by rape gangs' (a fallacious figure) which was sub-headed 'Caucasian women the targets', and in which it repeated the phraseology that the alleged perpetrators 'are all of Middle Eastern extraction and remarked that 'their alleged victims have all been Caucasian' (Kidman 2001:1): Police are concerned that the acts may become culturally institutionalised , it recorded. The following day, 2GB radio talkback host Philip Clark (2001) referred to pack rapes by 'Middle Eastern gangs' around Bankstown, canvassed the belief that the crimes were racially based, and suggested that members of the 'Arabic community' could be harbouring the criminals.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Gender and Crime: A Reader |
| Editors | Karen Evans, Janet Jamieson |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Open Univesity Press |
| Pages | 217-229 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780335225224 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- multiculturalism
- moral panics
- rape
- Australia
