Boys like them : the role of the courts in moral panics around "Muslim" gang rape

Abstract

Empirically, the focus of this thesis is an investigation of how the courts become implicated in the construction of certain high profile gang rape cases in New South Wales since 2000, as having a strong 'cultural' component. The case studies chosen for this project involve what became widely referred to in the associated moral panic as "ethnic gang rape": the "Bankstown rapes" (in South-western Sydney) of 2000 involving a group of second-generation immigrant youths of Lebanese Muslim background, and the "K brothers" rapes in 2002 (also in Sydney) - perpetrated by four brothers who identified as Pakistani immigrant Muslims and their friend.

Date of Award	2007
Original language	English