Sexual Violence in a Digital Age

This book examines how digital communications technologies have transformed modern societies, with profound effects both for everyday life, and for everyday crimes. Sexual violence, which is recognized globally as a significant human rights problem, has likewise changed in the digital age. Through an investigation into our increasingly and ever-normalised digital lives, this study analyses the rise of technology-facilitated sexual assault, 'revenge pornography', online sexual harassment and gender-based hate speech. Drawing on ground-breaking research into the nature and extent of technology-facilitated forms of sexual violence and harassment, the authors explore the reach of these harms, the experiences of victims, the views of service providers and law enforcement bodies, as well as the implications for law, justice and resistance. Sexual Violence in a Digital Age is compelling reading for scholars, activists, and policymakers who seek to understand how technology is implicated in sexual violence, and what needs to be done to address sexual violence in a digital age.

List of contents

Introduction.- Part I: Power.- 1- Sexual Violence: A Feminist Criminological Analysis.- 2- Conceptualising Technosocial Sexual Harms.- Part II: Violence.- 3- Rape Culture Unveiled.- 4- Beyond 'Revenge Pornography'.- 5- Online Misogyny, Harassment and Hate Crimes.- Part III: Justice.- 6- The Potentials and Limitations of Law.- 7- Towards Equal Digital Citizenship.- 8- Digital Justice and Feminist Activism.- Conclusion

About the author

Anastasia Powell is Senior Lecturer in Justice and Legal Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. 

Nicola Henry is Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. 

Summary

Sexual Violence in a Digital Age is compelling reading for scholars, activists, and policymakers who seek to understand how technology is implicated in sexual violence, and what needs to be done to address sexual violence in a digital age.

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Henry, Anastasi Powell, Anastasia Powell
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781349845484
• ISBN: 978-1-349-84548-4
• No. of pages: 317
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 19 mm x 209 mm
• Illustrations: XI, 317 p.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity; Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; B, Digital Media, Violence, Human Rights, cybercrime, Crime, Criminology, Law and Criminology, Media studies: internet, digital media & society, Crime & criminology, Human rights, civil rights, Digital and New Media, Digital/New Media, Human Rights and Crime, Criminal Behavior, Sexual Offending, Sex crimes, Violence and Crime, Computer crimes, Computer crime, cybercrime