Copy the page URI to the clipboard
Barker, Kim and Jurasz, Olga
(2021).
Abstract
In 2020, the Scottish Government published the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill. This legislation marks the most recent attempt to "reform" hate crime law in Scotland. Reform suggestions included adding a gender aggravator to the hate crime framework so as to capture instances of gender-based hate. The draft Bill instead left aside the issue of gender/sex-based hate, with government proposals focussing on a proposed stand-alone offence of misogynistic harassment.
This article analyses the omission of gender in Scots hate crime including in the 2020 draft Bill—and assesses the proposed stand-alone offence of misogynistic harassment. In so doing, it highlights the shortcomings of the proposed legislation, outlining the significant implications for women of a continued failure to capture gender within the hate crime framework in Scots law.
Viewing alternatives
Download history
Item Actions
Export
About
- Item ORO ID
- 76500
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 4283-1121
- Project Funding Details
-
Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Other Not Set The Open University (OU) - Keywords
- Misogyny; Misogynistic Harassment; Scots Law; Online violence against women; Scotland; Hate crime; Women; Gender; Hate Crime & Public Order Bill
- Academic Unit or School
-
Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Law
Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) - Research Group
- observ@w Online Violence Against Women Observatory
- Copyright Holders
- © 2021 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved.
- Related URLs
- Depositing User
- Kim Barker