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TY - JOUR
T1 - A question of faith?
T2 - prosecuting religiously aggravated offences in England and Wales
AU - Iganski, Paul Stephen
AU - Sweiry, Abraham Benjamin
AU - Culpeper, Jonathan Vaughan
PY - 2016/4
Y1 - 2016/4
N2 - Have some of the prosecutions for religiously aggravated offences going before the courts amounted to attempts to apply unjust prohibitions against freedom of speech? Is there any evidence that the provisions for religiously aggravated offences have been applied to suppress criticism of religion? This paper applies an analysis of Crown Prosecution Service records on religiously aggravated offences to address these questions.
AB - Have some of the prosecutions for religiously aggravated offences going before the courts amounted to attempts to apply unjust prohibitions against freedom of speech? Is there any evidence that the provisions for religiously aggravated offences have been applied to suppress criticism of religion? This paper applies an analysis of Crown Prosecution Service records on religiously aggravated offences to address these questions.
KW - Freedom of expression
KW - Prosecutions
KW - Religiously aggravated offences
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2016
SP - 334
EP - 348
JO - Criminal Law Review
JF - Criminal Law Review
SN - 0011-135X
IS - 5
ER -