A dish served cold: targeting revenge in revenge pornography
A dish served cold: targeting revenge in revenge pornography
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10.1017/lst.2018.27
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2019-09-01
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0.7
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van Der Westhuizen, Charlotte
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Dymock, Alex;van Der Westhuizen, Charlotte
《2015年刑事司法和法院法》第33条的引入，将披露私人性图像定为刑事犯罪，被视为遏制这种滥用隐私及其对受害者的有害影响的可喜一步。然而，虽然第33条避而不提“复仇叙事”（这是通俗用语中对这一现象的称呼），但很少有人注意到复仇叙事是如何隐含地支持和渗透新罪行的，特别是其具体意图的要求。我们认为，这对法院处理第33条罪行和量刑有严重影响。借鉴跨学科的概念化的报复，其最近的刑事法律的历史，以及媒体和议会的言论的例子，我们声称，尽管无数的尝试把辩论的披露私人性图像对同意，伤害和隐私，有潜伏在这些话语的假设，受害者必须做了一些值得她收到的待遇。直到披露私人性图像的多重危害得到承认，并提出明确的建议，即对受害者行为的审查通常是不可接受的，我们认为，该罪行提供了很少的补救办法。
The introduction of s 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, criminalising the disclosure of private sexual images, has been seen as a welcome step forward for curbing this abuse of privacy and the harmful effects it has on victims. However, while s 33 sidesteps any reference to 'revenge pornography', as the phenomenon has been termed in popular vernacular, little attention has been paid to the way in which narratives of revenge implicitly underpin and imbue the new offence, particularly its specific intent requirement. We argue this has serious implications for the treatment of s 33 offences in the courts and for sentencing. Drawing on cross-disciplinary conceptualisations of revenge, its recent criminal-legal history, and examples of media and parliamentary rhetoric, we claim that despite innumerable attempts to turn debate on disclosure of private sexual images towards consent, harm and privacy, there lurks within these discourses an assumption that the victim must have done something to deserve the treatment she received. Until the multiple harms of disclosure of private sexual images are recognised and explicit recommendations are made that scrutiny of victims' behaviour should normally be inadmissible, we argue that the offence offers little in the way of redress.