Image-based sexual abuse.
By C. McGlynn, E. Rackley. 2017
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Advances in technology have transformed and expanded the ways in which sexual violence can be perpetrated. One new manifestation of such violence is the non-consensual creation and/or distribution of private sexual images: what we conceptualise as ‘image-based sexual abuse’. This article delineates the scope of this new concept and identifies the individual and collective harms it engenders. We argue that the individual harms of physical and mental illness, together with the loss of dignity, privacy and sexual autonomy, combine to constitute a form of cultural harm, impacting directly on individuals, as well as on society as a whole. While recognizing the limits of law, we conclude by considering the options for redress and the role of law, seeking to justify the deployment of the expressive and coercive powers of the criminal and civil law as a means of encouraging cultural change.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Law, Sociology and Political Science
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- Anastasia Powell
- Asher Flynn
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- Andrew Smart
- Kelly Johnson
- Negar Rostamzadeh
- E. Rackley
Citations in the corpus
- Image-based sexual abuse: Victims and perpetrators (2019, methodology): “This paper uses the term ‘image-based sexual abuse’ (IBSA) (see McGlynn & Rackley 2017; McGlynn, Rackley & Houghton 2017; Powell, Henry & Flynn 2018), which includes three main behaviours: • the non-consensual creation of nude or sexual images, including images that are digitally altered or…”
- ‘It’s Torture for the Soul’: The Harms of Image-Based Sexual Abuse (2020, positive): “…wrongs, regardless of the nature and extent of any further conse-quential harm, as they constitute breaches of an individual’s ‘fundamental rights to dignity and privacy, as well as their freedom of sexual expression and autonomy’ (McGlynn and Rackley, 2017: 546; see also Citron and Franks, 2014).”
- Sociotechnical Harms: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (2022, background): “For example, abusers may misuse Wi-Fi enabled devices, including locking out and controlling devices to terrorize and ha-rass users [38, 149], or use technology to generate or share non-consensual sexually explicit images [15, 123].”