Why the Government is right not to make misogyny a hate-crime
by Georgia Gilholy, Conservative Home:
Last December, the Law Commission rejected a government-commissioned review into whether misogyny ought to be made a hate crime.
Six months on and much of the Twittersphere continues to protest the decision, even claiming that the failure of the idea was unsurprising given that the Government’s “own MPs are allegedly engaging in such behaviour”.
While there is no doubt that there are politicos on both sides of the aisle who succumb to sexist tendencies, deciding against making misogyny a hate crime remains the sensible course.
Indeed, the question of women’s safety cannot be confronted without admitting the ineptitude of the current justice system, a conundrum that rolling out fuzzy thought crimes will do little to remedy.
In the year ending 2021, there were a whopping 10,679 hate crime prosecutions across England and Wales, resulting in 9,263 convictions. In contrast, of the 61,158 rapes reported to police the same year, there were just 1,557 prosecutions and 1,109 convictions.
A further sticking point with this campaign is that swathes of it back including transgender people among those who can be a victim of anti-woman crimes.
This is misplaced, given that trans people already possess their own hate crime category. At its most cynical, this demand is likely another attempt by progressive campaigners to deny the obvious definition of women, to whom misogyny is the moral offence against.
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