Who Killed Leigh Leigh
Who killed Leigh Leigh? Is a non-fiction text written by criminologist Kerry Carrington. The text explore many unanswered question regarding the rape and murder of 14 year old Leigh Leigh, that occurred on the third of November 1989, at a beach party in the small Industrial suburb of Stockton in Newcastle. At the beginning of the text Carrington states her purpose for which she wrote the book as that her 'mission was to underscored by a passion that a system which had failed not only her (Robyn Leigh) daughter, but so many others, be exposed and brought to account' pg xiii, by do this, she does not only disputed the legal system, but also raises other issues of gender, mateship, social standards, underage drinking, parental responsibilities, and even questioned the societies attitudes toward rape. Carrington positioned us to view these issues and feel morally out raged, shocked, and appalled through the functions of non-fiction that include persuasive techniques, use of language, the structure of the text and selection of detail.This Text is a carefully and thoughtfully researched study, not merely of a horrific crime, but of the culture and sub-cultures that lay behind it. Carrington writes of Stockton as being working clas
The text shows Australian 'mateship' at its very worse, men 'loyally' protecting their fellow men, even if they committed a horrific act of evil. . She emphasis the fact that people thought that Leigh 'asked for it' and that Matt Webster 'was just being rough or just a boy or acting-out as a bloke with his mates and that was it. ' pg 133 By emphasing this you are positioned to ask yourself how could someone ask to be raped and how could they excuses a murderer. So, who killed Leigh Leigh? Who raped her? Carrington emphasis that nobody in town would reveal that. No one has ever been convicted of the rapes. s and economical and socially unstable she describes it from the beginning as 'a small-town of rumour and innuendo' pg xvi, which immediately position us to distrust the evidence given by the people in the town through out the book. After reading this book, one is left with an unpleasant sense of unfinished business. This made me question why would this be, and is rape in marriage common in this society?. The text continues to criticises the societies ideologies by the usage of rhetorical questions, like 'were residents afraid of having a murderer in their midst who might strike again? Or were they afraid of false accusations? Were some more shamed that frightened by the apparent unwillingness of witnesses to come forward?' pg 37, this makes the reader question the society and why they did not give evidence when it was clear that people grew what had happened. Her detailed investigation into the case, over a five year period, points the finger at many sources, at the police, for the way they exercised their discretion not to prosecute a number of other boys; and especially at a culture which encourages adolescent males to exhibit their masculinity by indulging in sexual exploitation. This is a simply passage that reinforces the reader's view on the police of Stockton as not doing there job, how could police fail to notice a 'rotten drunk'14yr old girl, and 40 other teens high on drugs, well obviously they didn't but just like Mr Justice Wood, who I quote from the October the 23rd, 1990 Newcastle Herald 'It should not have been left to police to endeavour to exercise control.
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