CRIMINALISATION OF “STREET HARASSMENT” IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE: TWO DIFFERENT LEGISLATIVE APPROACHES TO “SEXIST” ACTS Cover Image

CRIMINALISATION OF “STREET HARASSMENT” IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE: TWO DIFFERENT LEGISLATIVE APPROACHES TO “SEXIST” ACTS
CRIMINALISATION OF “STREET HARASSMENT” IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE: TWO DIFFERENT LEGISLATIVE APPROACHES TO “SEXIST” ACTS

Author(s): Jean-Marc Hausman
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду
Keywords: Street harassment; Sexist outrage; Belgium; France; Criminalisation

Summary/Abstract: In the fight against “street harassment”, both France et Belgium adopt laws which make sexism an offence. However, the legislators follow different approaches. This article compares the rationale behind these laws, the way in which the notion of “sexism” is understood in these two legal systems and the forms of effectiveness that French and Belgian legislators intend to give to the legal measures put in place.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 125-140
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English