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040			_aAFVC
100			_aMcGlynn, Clare _99207
245			_aTowards a new criminal offence of intimate intrusions _cClare McGlynn
260			_bSpringer, _c2024
500			_aFeminist Legal Studies, 2024, 32(2): 189-212
520			_aThis article suggests a new approach to tackling women’s experiences of harm and abuse, particularly online, namely a criminal law of ‘intimate intrusions’. It seeks to reinvigorate Betsy Stanko’s (1985) concept of intimate intrusions, developing it particularly in the context of the ever-increasing prevalence of online abuse against women and girls, as well as establishing how this conceptualisation might manifest in law reform. Intimate intrusions, it is argued, provides a valuable umbrella concept that may better encompass both the range and nature of existing harms, as well as, crucially, the yet-to-be-imagined modes of abuse. Further, in suggesting a new criminal offence of intimate intrusions, this article challenges the common process of piecemeal criminal law reform, with each new manifestation of abuse resulting in a specific offence tackling that specific behaviour. While such an approach provides new redress options, it remains limited. Following an examination of recent reforms in Northern Ireland, where three distinct new criminal offences were adopted covering downblousing, upskirting and cyberflashing, this article suggests that the concept of ‘intimate intrusions’ provides a better foundation for a new criminal offence and outlines its potential nature and scope. (Author's abstract). This paper appears in a Special issue: After #MeToo: Law, Justice and Sexual Violence - follow the link for the Table of contents. Record #8897
650			_aCRIMINAL JUSTICE _9167
650			_aIMAGE-BASED SEXUAL ABUSE _99483
650			_aLAW REFORM _9338
650			_aONLINE HARASSMENT _95989
650			_aSEXUAL HARASSMENT _9534
650			_aSEXUAL VIOLENCE _9531
650			_aTECHNOLOCY-FACILITATED ABUSE _913331
650		0	_aVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN _93088
651			_aINTERNATIONAL _93624
651			_aUNITED KINGDOM _92604
773	0		_tFeminist Legal Studies, 2024, 32(2): 189-212
830			_aFeminist Legal Studies _94848
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-024-09547-y _zDOI: 10.1007/s10691-024-09547-y (Open access)
856			_uhttps://link.springer.com/journal/10691/volumes-and-issues/32-2 _ySpecial issue: After #MeToo: Law, Justice and Sexual Violence, TOC
942			_2ddc _cARTICLE _hnews130