All tagged Sexual Violence

"The cold penetrating gaze of the camera lens is, in effect, like a double rape." Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: Legislative and Judicial Responses to this "Pernicious New Habit"

"The cold penetrating gaze of the camera lens is, in effect, like a double rape." Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: Legislative and Judicial Responses to this "Pernicious New Habit"

Ignacy Drzewiecki
Volume VI - 2020

Lily Wildman discusses the topic of perpetrators’ using their digital devices to record rape and sexual assaults. In this essay it is argued that there is a lacuna in criminal legislation, which requires the creation of a separate offence for recording sexual violence. This is because of the additional harm it causes to the victim and the difficulties associated with prosecuting sexual abuse cases in the first place.