Rape in the Nordic Countries

Continuity and Change
Herausgeber: Bruvik Heinskou, Marie; Stefansen, Kari; Skilbrei, May-Len

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Produktbeschreibung

This multidisciplinary volume sheds light on the phenomenon and construction of rape and sexual violence within the Nordic region, exploring the ways in which rape and sexual violence are dealt with through criminal law and considering governmental policies aimed at combatting it, with a special focus on legal regulations and developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781032085821
• ISBN-10: 1032085827
• Artikelnr.: 69898847

Autorenporträt

Marie Bruvik Heinskou works as Commissioning Editor at Hans Reitzels Publishing House and as external lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. She is former Associate Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark, and has published on sexual violence and violence in leading international journals. May-Len Skilbrei is Professor at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway. She also holds a position at Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) at Oslo Metropolitan University. Her research interests are gender, sexuality, power and law and she has published books, articles and chapters internationally on how Nordic governments and civil society actors approach prostitution, human trafficking, child sexual abuse and sexual violence. Kari Stefansen works as a Research Professor at Norwegian Social Research, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. She is the co-editor of Collaborating against Child Abuse: Exploring the Nordic Barnahus Model. Her current research focuses on youth and sexual violence.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Nordic Research Agenda on Rape and Sexual Violence 2. Theorising
Sexual Violence in Intimate Relations in Scandinavia: A Literature Review
3. Cultivating Ethical Negotiations or Fetishizing Consent in BDSM? 4.
Understanding Unwanted Sexual Touching: A Situational Approach 5. Making
the Case for 'Good Enough' Rape-Prevalence Estimates: Insights from a
School-Based Survey Experiment Among Norwegian Youths 6. From the
Protection of Marriage to the Defence of Equality - The Finnish Debate Over
the Sexual Autonomy of Wives 7. Towards Voluntariness in Swedish Rape Law:
Hyper-Medialised Group Rape Cases and the Shift in the Legal Discourse 8.
Rape Law and Coercive Circumstances 9. Empowered or Protected? The
'Problem' of Complainants' Rights in Danish and Norwegian Preparatory Works
on Criminal Procedure 10. Othering the Rapist: Rurality, Sexual Violence,
and the Bjästa Case 11. Sexual Transgressing: Situational and Narrative
Perspectives 12. Rape in the Age of Internet 13. Digital Sexual Violence:
Image-Based Sexual Abuse Among Danish Youth 14. Breaking the Silence:
Social Media Disclosures of Sexual Violence in Iceland