AnalysisCrimeDiscriminationFeaturesGlobal IssuesHumanitySocietyWorld
Misogyny hate crime: new research reveals true scale of issue – and how the public are united against it
A widely shared video of a woman being attacked by a man outside a Parisian cafe when she told him to “shut up” after he allegedly used “dirty words that were humiliating and provocative” brought the issue of misogynistic hate crime to the…
- Authors:
- The Conversation
But this wasn’t a…
It’s an example of something countless women endure every day – as we discovered during our research.
Our research focused on the UK, where Nottinghamshire Police became the first force in the country to introduce misogyny as a hate crime in April 2016.
Other forces have started to follow suit and police chiefs in England, Wales and…