Scotland: Misogyny could be made a hate crime under new recommendations

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2022-03-08 15:31

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Scottish government is to consider making misogyny a stand-alone hate crime.

A working group set up to look into tackling violence and harassment against women has recommended the creation of a Misogyny and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act.

It would include misogyny as an aggravation in crimes such as assault and threatening behaviour and create three new offences:

• Stirring up hatred against women and girls
• Public misogynistic harassment
• Issuing threats of, or invoking, rape or sexual assault or disfigurement of women and girls online and offline'

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Crickets.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2022-03-09 20:34