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Cultures of Crime and Violence:The Australian Experience
Ed. Judith Bessant, Kerry Carrington and Sandy Cook with artwork by William Kelly
 
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Front Cover image:
Installation of William Kelly's artwork "Banners: from The Peace Project", pastel on paper, at Parliament House (Melbourne, Australia).
Includes writings by a wide range of contributors on topics including domestic violence, AIDS and HIV, state and institutional violence, aboriginal issues, prostitution, violence in schools and an essay by William Kelly, "An Artist's Perspective."

"We hear of the 'culture of violence' amongst our youth or within this or that segment of society. We should also be looking at the violence of culture which legitimises, underpins, upholds, fosters, condones (or turns its back) to violence."

William Kelly, from his essay

 

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Back Cover images: "Cannon and Young Boy" and "Witness",  charcoal on paper.

"Cultures of Crime and Violence: The Australian Experience"
1995
222 pages, 20 artwork images by William Kelly
ISBN 1-86324-417-4

Publishers:
Latrobe University Press
Latrobe University
Bundoora (Melbourne)
Australia