This article reveals the trajectory of parliamentary debate on sex crimes over forty years in Victoria, Australia. We aimed to identify what might have led Parliament to support the introduction of restorative justice as an option for some sex crimes. We searched parliamentary records from 1976 to 2016 for debates on law reform for sex crimes that involved adult victims without intellectual disability. It was evident that politicians’ debates shifted in their constructs of offenses and victims in ways that appear to have created space to explore restorative justice.

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开启恢复性司法的途径：澳大利亚维多利亚州关于性犯罪法改革的议会辩论分析

本文揭示了澳大利亚维多利亚州四十年来议会关于性犯罪的辩论轨迹。我们旨在确定可能导致议会支持引入恢复性司法作为某些性犯罪的选择的原因。我们检索了 1976 年至 2016 年的议会记录，以寻找关于涉及无智力障碍成年受害者的性犯罪的法律改革的辩论。很明显，政客们的辩论在他们对罪行和受害者的建构上发生了转变，似乎为探索恢复性司法创造了空间。