Non-criminal redress for intimate image abuse victim-survivors

Our position paper, Beyond the Takedown: Non-criminal Redress for Intimate Image Abuse imagines what support and justice for victim-survivors of intimate image-based abuse (IIA) can look like beyond content removal and carceral systems. Our paper proposes a government-funded, non-criminal redress scheme for victim-survivors of IIA and potentially other forms of tech-facilitated gender-based harm in the UK.

We imagine non-criminal redress as a viable route to facilitating justice, and see it as a requirement to repair and address IIA violations, focusing on victim-survivors’ immediate and long-term needs.

We acknowledge that content takedown is an immediate need for victim-survivors for redress to begin to work. Our desire is for a non-criminal redress scheme to be part of a broader system that provides compensation to victim-survivors beyond their initial report.