WOMEN'S JUSTICE TASKFORCE PROPOSES THE END OF BLIND AND EQUAL JUSTICE

One of the stories of last week was the story on the increase in the number of women being convicted of domestic abuse. The same week, the Women's Justice Taskforce, set out a report welcomed by the Ministry of Justice, that said women's prisons should close. The BBC also reported that the taskforce of self-appointed experts wanted a  director of women's justice to be appointed to provide "clear leadership and accountability". A Minister for Women is not enough.

The story was also in the Daily Mail (read the comments for illumination) and Independent and Mary Riddell in the Telegraph waded in with some rank hypocrisy of the highest order.

This is an issue that we have covered before but reports like this are unbelievably dangerous for men and society as whole. How can Britain possible ever claim to be a champion of equality and have equality before the law when there the justice system discriminates against genders.

The whole justice system is based on the tenet that justice is blind, but how can it be when she sneaks a look from behind the blindfold to check what the gender is of the prosecuted and then hands down the sentence accordingly. Prison for the man, community service for the women - even if the crime is the same.

That is what the Women's Justice Taskforce wants and believes in (do they want this woman out on community service?).

It is not equality of justice is it is discriminatory justice.

Is there no end to discrimination against men, special treatment for women and the undermining of the rule of law and equal justice.

Posted by Skimmington

Notes to Editors - this issue has been covered before: here, here

Comments

[Jenny]

I beg to differ with Skimmington, it's not "discriminatory justice", it bears no resemblance to justice whatsoever. It's pure, unadulterated discrimination or, more accurately, misandry.

There is already a "female sentencing discount" and police are very reluctant to prosecute women anyway. I note nobody mentions the impact on families caused by a male breadwinner being gaoled. Nor is there any mention of the impact on victims (both male and female) of female crime when they see the criminal walk out of court with some paltry "slap on the wrist". If these proposals had been adopted earlier, Myra Hindly would probably have got a Conditional Discharge.

If these proposals are adopted, the country had better brace itself for a massive explosion in female crime.

Quote: "The report, Reforming Women's Justice, said: 'It is true that many women end up in prison for low-level crime as a result of repeat offending and a failure to respond to non-custodial alternatives."

So, when a female CRIMINAL fails to respond to non-custodial sentences, they propose using more of the same! How stupid can they be?

[Oscar Calme]

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