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Recommendation 32
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Paragraph: 143
Current legal framework fails to protect retail workers due to insufficient prosecutions and deterrents.
Conclusion
The everyday experiences of retail workers show that the current framework is too often failing to protect them from abuse, provide justice for victims or a deterrent for offenders. With prosecution rates vanishingly small, the existence of an aggravating factor in the sentencing guidelines is not sufficient to deal with the scale of the challenge.
Paragraph Reference:
143
Government Response
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