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Skyddsvärda Intressen & Straffvärda Kränkningar. Om Sexualbrotten I Det Straffrättsliga Systemet Med Utgångspunkt I Brottet Sexuellt Ofredande / Values Worthy Of Legal Protection And Violations That Deserve To Be Punished. Sexual Offences In Swedish Criminal Law With The Offence Of Sexual Harassment As The Starting Point, Linnéa Wegerstad

Linnéa Wegerstad

What is considered a sexual offense and what constitutes the sexual integrity protected by Swedish criminal law? Through a comprehensive historical, theoretical and doctrinal analysis, this thesis considers the question of how distinctions between sexual and other forms of violence, abuse or harassment are made in criminal law.

Firstly, the thesis explores the emergence of sexual offenses in the period when modern criminal law was formed. In parallel with the law’s own narrative of the history of sexual offenses the thesis shows that a different story can be discerned whereby sexual offenses are created through erotic sexuality. This means that …

Om Erotik, Makt Och Sexualbrottens Sexualitet, Linnéa Wegerstad

Linnéa Wegerstad

On Erotic, Power, and the Sexuality of Sexual Offenses In this chapter, I examine the concept of sexual offenses in Swedish criminal law: How is the sexuality of sexual offenses constructed? The material analyzed consists of preparatory works and case law on sexual offenses. Inspired by law professor Katherine M. Franke, the analysis is theoretically grounded in two diverse understandings of sexuality: Sexuality as erotic and sexuality as a dense transfer point for relations of power. In the article I argue that the sexuality of sexual offenses – such as it is constructed in Swedish criminal law on sexual offences …