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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEngland And Wales Want to Make Misogyny A Hate Crime
https://jezebel.com/england-and-wales-want-to-make-misogyny-a-hate-crime-1845149688The Law Commission, an independent body that recommends legal changes in England and Wales, is recommending that misogyny be made a hate crime. Currently, hate crime legislation in the countries cover protected characteristics including race, religion, transgender identity, sexual orientation, and disabilitythe new recommendation would extend that list of protected characteristics to also include sex or gender. After reviewing the current hate crime laws, the commission said that the majority of evidence it had seen about gender-based crimes was related to misogyny, but that they would consult further on whether sex or gender as a protected category would cover both men and women, or just women.
The Guardian reports that this recommendation is just one part of a broader push for misogyny to be classified as a hate crime, with an emphasis on recognizing street harassment experienced by women. And this push has already begun to influence policy and practices on a local levela pilot program in Nottinghamshire which treated public harassment of women as a gender-based hate crime found that the majority of the people interviewed wanted the policy to continue.
Professor Penney Lewis, the criminal law commissioner, said this about the recommendation:
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England And Wales Want to Make Misogyny A Hate Crime (Original Post)
Celerity
Sep 2020
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Solly Mack
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musette_sf
(10,200 posts)3. K&R
ABOUT TIME
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. K&R
It's about time! Because so often the harassment, oppression and violent behavior toward women is about hatred. I have never understood why it has taken so long to recognize this.