Goosey, S (2021) Ageism as a Hate Crime: The Case for Extending Aggravated Offences to Protect Age Groups. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 41 (3). pp. 612-637. ISSN 0143-6503
Abstract
This article argues that hate crime laws in England and Wales should be extended to protect age groups by aggravating offences that are based on or motivated by hostility to age groups. I critically assess the following arguments for this: that age-related hate crime can impose greater psychological distress than equivalent non-hate crime and this justifies the increased punishments that aggravated offences offer; that hate crime laws can justifiably protect older people because older people are relatively vulnerable to crime; that extending aggravated offences to protect age groups can justifiably punish hate crime offenders for their increased culpability in contributing to marginalisation of age groups; and creating distinct aggravated offences for age-hostile crimes has symbolic value to reflect the grave moral wrong of these crimes and to communicate that the state is committed to eradicating discrimination against age groups.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article, published in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | hate crime, ageism, age discrimination |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2021 17:14 |
Last Modified: | 21 May 2024 13:28 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/ojls/gqaa059 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169389 |