If you were the prime minister, how would you deal with dangerous men?

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Every single day we are faced with stories of men harming women and children, yet NOT going to jail!

I understand that jail is expensive etc. However, I hate that men who want to hurt us are just amongst us.

Personally, I’d force all these horrible men to go and live together on some remote island. However, I imagine I’d not be allowed to do that.

How would you deal with bad men if you were in charge?

Well I don’t think my first step would be to change the law. By and large the statute book is where it should be. Although sentencing could do with rebalancing in favour of VAWG.

I’d start by training juries, I think. Juries hearing a case about DV and / or rape would watch a generic video about what victims of rape do and don’t do. The video would make it clear that rape devastated lives, and stop the horribly prevalent attitude that convicting a rapist would cut short a promising career, etc.

I would also look again at schools and universities - sod what the press say. Consent, the difference between porn and normal sexual experience - by the time both boys and girls leave school, I’d like a clear message from society that humiliation and choking are not normal parts of a relationship, and can get you locked up.

To be honest though I think that the male sex is riddled with these attitudes and that the situation is getting worse, not better.

I’d legislate to ban/criminalise porn, prostitution and surrogacy - all acts that exploit or treat women as commodities, although the lobbies behind these activities are very powerful. I’d invest heavily in policing of violent and sexual crime, and in public health and education campaigns. I’d also invest heavily in rehabilitation programmes for offenders, but increase the maximum possible length of custodial sentences for such crimes. I’d exempt men from being able to work in early years settings until weve seen demonstrable overall reduction in VAWG.

But I’d also give airtime to your island plan.

I think it needs a complete re education of men (and women actually) about toxic masculinity and what it is to be a man.

A bit like the drink driving campaigns. Once, drink driving was completely normal, now it's socially unacceptable and perfectly reasonable to "tell" on people who do it.

Atm, we have huge numbers of men who believe they are good guys, but wouldn't speak up against the harassment they see every day, and women married to or raising those men who also believe they're good guys because, they wouldn't personally harasss anyone.

What they do do though is contribute to an environment where the behaviour is "acceptable", and the men who do it are protected.

These dangerous men used to be little boys so I would look into why they’ve become dangerous men. Home environment, parenting, main care giver when young, education, online access for children, good signposting for any issues that may appear. Specialised intervention education. We definitely need to start looking to prevention rather than wait until the damage is done. Give me a child when he’s five and I’ll show you the man.

I'd force them to go onto ssris. It would calm them down and reduce their sex drive. Less aggression, better mood and not pestering some hapless woman for sex all the time.

I'd make them do litter picking as well. No spare time in which to find trouble.