TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barker,Kim
AU  - Jurasz,Olga
TI  - Online Misogyny as Hate Crime: A Challenge for Legal Regulation?
SN  - 9780429956805
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Gender & the law
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Jurisprudence & general issues
KW  - abuse
KW  - Caroline Criado-Perez
KW  - cyberhate
KW  - digital feminism
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Gina Miller
KW  - Harassment
KW  - hate crime
KW  - law
KW  - Legal regulation
KW  - Malice
KW  - Olga Jurasz
KW  - online harms
KW  - Online hate crimes
KW  - Online misogyny
KW  - Protected characteristics
KW  - Social media
KW  - Twitter
KW  - victims
N1  - Open Access
N2  - The ideal of an inclusive and participatory Internet has been undermined by the rise of misogynistic abuse on social media platforms. However, limited progress has been made at national - and to an extent European - levels in addressing this issue. In England and Wales, the tackling of underlying causes of online abuse has been overlooked because the law focuses on punishment rather than measures to prevent such abuses. Furthermore, online abuse has a significant impact on its victims that is underestimated by policymakers. This volume critically analyses the legal provisions that are currently deployed to tackle forms of online misogyny, and focuses on three aspects; firstly, the phenomenon of social media abuse; secondly, the poor and disparate legal responses to social media abuses; and thirdly, the similar failings of hate crime to tackle problems of online gender-based abuses. This book advances a compelling argument for legal changes to the existing hate crime, and communications legislation
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/13263e33-efb5-426f-9de3-c7bef8e0a695/9780429956812.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52771
ER  -