Revenge Pornography Flashcards
Definition of RP
The sharing or showing of private and explicit media
Statistics
206 people perpetrated within 12 months of law being passed
1160 cases reported to police forces, only 11% had prosecution
Bond and Tyrell, 2021
Reasons it does not get reported
Humiliation
Defamation of character
Embarassment
Vulnerable state
Bothamley and Tulley, 2018
Harms to victims
Loss of self esteem
Anxiety
Humiliation
Shame
Discharge from employment
Harassment
Cyber-rape
Bothamley and Tulley, 2018; Citro9n and Franks, 2014
Motive for RP
Continuum for Sexual Violence
McGlynn et al., 2017
New method for old crime
Henry and Powell, 2015
A form of Domestic Abuse
Dimond et al., 2011
Legal responses prior 2015
Protection from Harassment Act 1997
Communications Act 2003
Malicious COmmunications Act 1988
Legal Responses after 2015
Criminal and Courts Act 2015 Section 33
“Disclosing private sexual photogprahs and films with intent to cause distress”
Triable either way
Maximuum 2 year sentence
Clarifiction in Criminal and Courts Act 2015
Any kind of discosure counts
Private and sexuial
Photograph and film
College of Policing, 2021
More clarification on Act
Not an offence to share with the individual in film
It is defence for a person under charge to prove they beleived disclosure was necassary for purposes of preventing, investigation or detecting crime
Commercial pornography (made with consent)
Domestic Abuse Act 2021
Seactio 69
Threats to disclose
29th June 2021
