Draws on wide-ranging empirical research to show the production, distribution and consumption of pornography, its content, its consumers and the public debates within which people make sense of it. This title provides insight into the everyday uses of pornography by ordinary consumers, and the place of pornography in society.

Charts the changing policies and practices of the Australian Defence Force, illuminating the experiences of LGBTI members in what was often a hostile institution. At the centre of this book are the courageous LGBTI members who served their country in the face of systemic prejudice.

The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of sexual assault in Australia's past. Yet we still have little knowledge of the policing, prosecution and punishment of sexual crimes in the past. Sex Crimes in the Fifties examines this history by investigating Australia in the 1950s.

How does Australia operate in the world? And why? In this closely evidenced, original account, former Australian Army intelligence analyst Clinton Fernandes categorically debunks Australia's greatest myth: that of its own independence.

By 2018, rates of the most common forms of crime in Australia had fallen between 40 and 80 percent and were lower than they'd been in twenty or in some cases thirty years. In The Vanishing Criminal Don Weatherburn and Sara Rahman set out to explain this dramatic fall in crime.

Anthony Waterlow left his decrepit, rubbish-filled room in a run-down boarding house at 4.45 pm on Monday 11 November 2009. By 6 pm, the 42-year-old was seen leaving another home: his sister Chloe's in Randwick .He left behind her slaughtered body and that of their father; celebrated art curator Nick Waterlow.