Submitted on Wednesday 17th March 2021
Rejected on Friday 16th April 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Harsher sentences for sexual harassments, sexual assaults and rapes
There should be harsher sentences for sexual harassments, verbal or otherwise, to prevent these crimes from happening. Harsher punishments and prison sentences for reoffenders would deter these acts from happening and would make women feel safer in public and in open spaces.
The focus really needs to be on disrupting the attitudes and behaviors that excuse and normalize men's violence and verbal abuse towards women, not catching the harassments and then dealing with the issue whilst it's occurring. Some of the measures being discussed at the moment don't actually reflect women's daily lived experiences and they also don't acknowledge the need to prevent the crimes from happening in the first place. Punishing these crimes with harsher sentences will protect women.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Increase minimum and maximum sentences for all sexual offences: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/577443
Make sexual harassment a specific criminal offence: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578940
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