Further sexual offences Flashcards
What is outraging public decency?
It is an offence to commit an act of a lewd, obscene and disgusting nature, which is capable of outraging public decency in a public place where at least two members of the public could have witnessed it.
What are the 4 elements of the offence of outraging public decency?
-the act must be of a lewd, obscence and disgusting nature
-the act must be capable of outraging public decency
-more than 1 person must have been able to witness even if they didn’t.
-the act must be in a place where there is a real possibility that members of the public might witness it
what is section 66 sexual offences act 2003?
Exposure, commonly known as flashing
what is the definition of exposure, section 66 sexual offences act 2003?
A person intentionally exposes their genitals and they intend that someone will be caused alarm or distress.
what is section 67(1) sexual offences act 2003?
Voyeurism
A person observes another doing a private act for the purpose of sexual gratification and they know that the other person does not consent to being observed for their sexual gratification
what is section 67(2) voyeurism?
67(2)- a person operating equipment with the intention of enabling another, for his/her sexual gratification to observe a third person, doing a private act, where he/she knows that the other person does not consent.
what is section 67(3) voyeurism?
A person recording another person doing a private act with the intention of looking at it for his own sexual gratification or intending others to look at it for their sexual gratification and knowing the person being recorded does not consent.
what is section 67(4) voyeurism?
someone who drilled a spyhole or installed a two-way mirror with the intention of spying on someone for sexual gratification or allowing others to do so.
what is section 63 of the sexual offences act 2003?
Trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence
what is section 71 sexual offences act 2003?
sexual activity in a public toilet
What is section 33 Criminal Justice & Courts Act 2015? And what are the three points to prove?
Disclosing private and sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress.
A person commits an offence if:
-they disclose or threaten to disclose a private sexual photo or film in which another appears
-by doing so they intend to cause distress to the individual
-the disclosure is or would be without the consent of that individual
What do sections 63-67 of Criminal Justice & Immigration Act 2008 cover?
*Clue: what are the points to prove to make it extreme?
Possession of extreme pornographic images, It is an offence to be in possession of an extreme pornographic image:
For it to be classed as extreme it would need to have one of the following:
-an act that threatens a person’s life
-an act that results or likely to result in serious injury to genitals, anus or Breasts
-involve sexual interference with a human corpse
-act of intercourse or oral sex with animal (whether dead or alive)
