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Safety for women on the tube.

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OneMerryRedSnail · 26/02/2024 16:53

I'm not sure where to post this but here goes.

Can anyone tell me :

a) Why there is such a difference in the sentencing of these charmers ? and

b) Whether or not the 'punishments fit the crime'? (One got a suspended sentence)

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/londons-tube-train-bus-perverts-120000314.html

London's Tube, train and bus perverts named and shamed

London’s courtrooms are inundated with sex crime cases which have taken place on public transport.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/londons-tube-train-bus-perverts-120000314.html

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RawBloomers · 28/02/2024 04:59

I don’t think sentencing ever really fits the crime. I don’t think it can.

For the most part the longer sentences involved multiple crimes and multiple occasions or really young girls and are in keeping with sentencing guidelines (which, IMO, on the whole make reasonable value judgements between what’s worse and what’s not, though it’s always painful to put objective criteria on something that’s going to be hugely personal to the victim).

The outlier seems to be the suspended sentence, which seems not only unreasonably lenient given one victim was still a child but also probably less likely to be of any reformative value unless there were some conditions attached that weren't reported (because a homeless man has little incentive to stick to a suspended sentence and will have a harder time accessing any help if he did wish to change).

On the whole, I believe, we’d be better off with a lot more men convicted and shorter sentences than longer sentences and the current virtual immunity men have for sexual assault, so I’m more concerned with concentrating on changing criminal procedure to increase convictions.

NotAllowed · 28/02/2024 05:03

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WhereAreWeNow · 28/02/2024 06:35

What a disgusting bunch. The one who targeted school girls on buses strikes me as particularly dangerous.

Peekaboobo · 28/02/2024 07:35

Don't they have those emergency cord things on the underground anymore?

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