Date: 24 Nov 2021 (Wed)

Time: 12:45 – 14:15

Venue: Esther Lee Building LT4, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Prof.Thomas Crofts (Professor, School of Law and Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong)

Moderator: Prof. Yiu-tung Suen (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK)

Abstract:

Digital technologies have revolutionised the creation, discovery, gathering and sharing of information. Unfortunately, it has also enabled new forms of abusive behaviours which can violate a person’s sexual dignity and autonomy. These include using a device to view without consent a person’s private parts or a person engaging in a private act (voyeurism), or record images of a person’s private parts (‘upskirting’, ‘downblousing’), or to disseminate or threaten to disseminate intimate images (‘revenge pornography’). This seminar will examine how such behaviours have been dealt with in the criminal justice system in Hong Kong and how they should be dealt with. Drawing on recent reforms in other jurisdictions and general theories of criminalisation, the seminar will also examine the proposed new offences against such behaviour in the Crimes (Amendment) Bill 2021.

Speaker’s Biography:

Professor Crofts holds a joint appointment in the School of Law and the Department of Social and Behavioural Studies at City University. He is former Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney. His research in criminal law, criminology and criminal justice centres on criminalisation and criminal responsibility with a particular focus on the criminalisation and criminal responsibility of children, comparative criminal law, criminal law reform and sexuality and the law.

Language: English

Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13639563