MPs approve plans to make street sexual harassment crime in England and Wales
While targeted at changing behaviour towards women and girls, the proposals will apply equally to men and women.in December, meaning the changes are almost guaranteed to become law.
Women and girls under 34 are most likely to be the target of sexual offences but the least likely to report them, according to the Crown Prosecution Service .to staff about street harassment. The new guidelines also cover offences like exposure, stalking and sexual assault. Six months later, primary school teacher Sabina Nessa, 28, was murdered in south London by a man she had never met.Deliberately walking closely behind someone as they walk home at nightMaking obscene or offensive gestures towards a person in the streetHarsher sentences will also be introduced, increasing the maximum jail term from six months to two years.
"A reasonable worry about assault appears to have morphed into an institutional misandry," he told MPs.But Mr Chope did not vote against the bill.Campaigners have also called for wolf-whistling and staring intently to be criminalised.
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