Online Misogyny as Hate Crime : : A Challenge for Legal Regulation? /

Online Misogyny as Hate Crime : : A Challenge for Legal Regulation? / / by Kim Barker and Olga Jurasz.

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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 ca...

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VerfasserIn:
Barker, Kim,
Jurasz, Olga ,
TeilnehmendeR:
Jurasz, Olga ,
Place / Publishing House:Boca Raton, FL : : Routledge,, [2018].
©2019.
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (147 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Terminology
  • Chapter 1 Online Misogyny: Law and the Digital Feminist
  • Introduction Why this book and why now
  • What this book is (not) about
  • Addressing online misogyny through law: the limitations
  • Jurisdiction
  • Platform Regulation
  • Feminism, law and the fight against (online) misogyny
  • The rise of the digital feminist
  • Chapter 2 [Online] Misogyny: Old Problems, New Media?
  • 2.1. Introduction An open, participatory ideal?
  • 2.2. Social Media Abuse as a Modern Phenomenon
  • 2.3. From Offline to Online: the digital misogyny switch
  • 2.3.1. The Normalisation of Online Abuse
  • 2.3.2. Political Campaigning & The Techlash
  • 2.3.3. Intersectional Abuse Still Misogyny, Still a Techlash?
  • 2.4. Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Online Communications: The Legal Landscape
  • 3.1. Introduction Comprehension, Competence, and Cohesion?
  • 3.2. The Limitation Paradox
  • 3.2.1. The Devolution Settlement
  • 3.2.2. The European Union Remit
  • 3.2.3. Limitations Competence v Cohesion?
  • 3.3. Legal Challenges of Online Communications Where Does the Problem Lie?
  • Part I Threats & Threats to Kill
  • 3.4. Threats & Threats to Kill
  • Part II Stalking & Harassment
  • 3.5. Stalking
  • 3.6. Harassment
  • Part III Communications
  • 3.7. Communications Networks
  • 3.8. Conclusions
  • Chapter 4 Hate Crime: The Limits of the Law
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Hate crime: development and classifications
  • 4.2.1. Defining hate crime
  • 4.2.2. Hate crime v Hate speech
  • 4.2.3. Hate speech and human rights
  • 4.2.4. Hate crime: the current legal framework in England & Wales
  • 4.2.5. Who is protected against hate crime?
  • 4.3. Extending the boundaries of hate crime: hate (re)defined
  • 4.3.1. Why the need to include gender in hate crime laws
  • 4.3.2. Gender as a protected characteristic: towards law reform
  • 4.4. Online hate (crimes)
  • 4.4.1. Does online make it different?
  • 4.5. Online misogyny as a hate crime
  • 4.6. Conclusions
  • Chapter 5 - #OVAW, The Internet & Hate: Unfinished (Legal) Business
  • 5.1. The realities of everyday, gender-based hate
  • 5.2. Online misogyny: not a legislative priority
  • 5.3. Implications for legal response and regulation
  • 5.4. Final Thought
  • Index.

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