Survivors of domestic abuse are being criminalised and unfairly punished in the broken justice system, top lawyers, campaigners, and experts have said in a major call for government reform. Figures including Cherie Blair KC, former Victims Commissioner Dame Vera Baird KC, and campaigning lawyer Harriet Wistrich are among the signatories to a letter from the charity Women in Prison, calling for an end to “unfair criminalisation of women”.
Oh, go on. Give us an example of this 'unfairness', then.
They say the signs of domestic abuse and its impact are not taken into proper account when a woman ends up being prosecuted for a crime.
A crime she's committed? How is that unfair?
One survivor who went to prison said: “My boyfriend was a drug dealer who abused me financially, sexually, emotionally and physically.
“When we’d go out, he’d say ‘You’re carrying the drugs’. I was scared to say no.
“I was arrested and given a custodial sentence. I don’t ever want to see women going to prison after experiencing what I went through.”
Well, they won't if they choose better partners, and refuse to do anything illegal for them. But...you didn't, did you? You committed the crime. You are just proffering an excuse.
At the Labour Party conference in September, Ms Mahmood said “for women, prison isn’t working” and announced the creation of a new body, the Women’s Justice Board, which aims to cut prison numbers.
“Rather than encouraging rehabilitation, prison forces women into a life of crime”, she said. “After leaving a short custodial sentence, a woman is significantly more likely to commit a further crime than one given a non-custodial sentence.”
So, the answer's obvious - give them longer sentences!
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"....creation of a new body ......" .
Yet another taxpayer funded waste of space we are expected to silently accept.
Penseivat
“Rather than encouraging rehabilitation, prison forces women into a life of crime”, she said. “After leaving a short custodial sentence, a woman is significantly more likely to commit a further crime than one given a non-custodial sentence.”
As I understand it, that applies in equal measure to men. So it's fair.
It all sounds very much like a claim for a pussy pass.
Soft treatment of women has been a thing forever - see "Pleading the belly" as an example.
The feminazis should be pressing for women to receive the same sentences as men if they really believed in equality.
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