A question of faith? : prosecuting religiously aggravated offences in England and Wales

Iganski, Paul Stephen and Sweiry, Abraham Benjamin and Culpeper, Jonathan Vaughan (2016) A question of faith? : prosecuting religiously aggravated offences in England and Wales. Criminal Law Review, 2016 (5). pp. 334-348. ISSN 0011-135X

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Abstract

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.