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Name, shame and blame : criminalising consensual sex in Papau New Guinea / Christine Stewart.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra ACT 0200, Australia : Australian University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 368 pages : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 192502122X
  • 9781925021226
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Name, shame and blame : criminalising consensual sex in Papau New Guinea.DDC classification:
  • 176 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ32 .S74 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue. The perfect storm -- 1. Through the window -- 2. From the bush -- 3. In the courtroom -- 4. On the streets -- 5. In trouble -- 6. At the intersection -- 7. Where to now? -- Appendix 1. Respondents -- Appendix 2. Sample antecedent report -- Appendix 3. Review of homosexuality cases -- Appendix 4. Summary of sentences.
Summary: Papua New Guinea is one of the many former British Commonwealth colonies which maintain the criminalisation of the sexual activities of two groups, despite the fact that the sex takes place between consenting adults in private: sellers of sex and males who have sex with males. The English common law system was imposed on the colonies with little regard for the social regulation and belief systems of the colonised, and in most instances, was retained and developed post-Independence, regardless of the infringements of human rights involved.
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Prologue. The perfect storm -- 1. Through the window -- 2. From the bush -- 3. In the courtroom -- 4. On the streets -- 5. In trouble -- 6. At the intersection -- 7. Where to now? -- Appendix 1. Respondents -- Appendix 2. Sample antecedent report -- Appendix 3. Review of homosexuality cases -- Appendix 4. Summary of sentences.

Papua New Guinea is one of the many former British Commonwealth colonies which maintain the criminalisation of the sexual activities of two groups, despite the fact that the sex takes place between consenting adults in private: sellers of sex and males who have sex with males. The English common law system was imposed on the colonies with little regard for the social regulation and belief systems of the colonised, and in most instances, was retained and developed post-Independence, regardless of the infringements of human rights involved.

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