Rape In The Nordic Countries

Author : Marie Bruvik Heinskou,May-Len Skilbrei,Kari Stefansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429885129

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Rape in the Nordic Countries by Marie Bruvik Heinskou,May-Len Skilbrei,Kari Stefansen Pdf

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429467608, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. While the Nordic countries are listed at the top in most international rankings of gender equality and citizens’ feelings of security, studies on the prevalence of sexual victimisation present a different picture, suggesting that the very countries that have invested much in establishing gender equality actually see a high prevalence of sexual violence. This book sheds light on the phenomenon and construction of rape and other forms of 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. Thematically organised, it offers new research on perpetrators, victimhood, criminal justice and prevention. Multi-disciplinary in approach, it brings together the latest work from a range of scholars to offer insights into the situation in the five Nordic countries, asking how and why rape and other forms of sexual violence occur, whilst also addressing the timely issues of online sexual cultures, BDSM and the grey areas of sexual offences. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, criminology and law with interests in gender and sexual violence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Justice, Administration of
ISBN : OCLC:1354536841

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Time for Change by Anonim Pdf

Women in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) encounter multiple barriers in accessing justice for rape and sexual violence. High levels of rape and widespread impunity stand in stark contrast to the high scores the region has achieved in gender equality in many areas of life. The situation facing survivors of rape is not uniform across the four countries but there are disturbing parallels among them.

Author : Peter Hervik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319746302

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Racialization, Racism, and Anti-Racism in the Nordic Countries by Peter Hervik Pdf

This book represents a comprehensive effort to understand discrimination, racialization, racism, Islamophobia, anti-racist activism, and the inclusion and exclusion of minorities in Nordic countries. Examining critical media events in this heavily mediatized society, the contributors explore how processes of racialization take place in an environment dominated by commercial interests, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim narratives and sentiments, and a surprising lack of informed research on national racism and racialization. Overall, in tracing how these individual events further racial inequalities through emotional and affective engagement, the book seeks to define the trajectory of modern racism in Scandinavia.

Author : Karina L. Vintersborg
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789289314619

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Coexistence of Genetically Modified, Conventional and Organic Crops in the Nordic Countries by Karina L. Vintersborg Pdf

Author : Eirinn Larsen,Sigrun Marie Moss,Inger Skjelsbæk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000408201

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Gender Equality and Nation Branding in the Nordic Region by Eirinn Larsen,Sigrun Marie Moss,Inger Skjelsbæk Pdf

This book explores how gender equality, a central part of the Nordic imaginary, is used in the political communication of Nordic states. The analyses presented move beyond conventional images and discourses of Nordic gender- and women-friendliness by critically investigating how and to what extent gender equality serves nation-branding in the Nordic region. Nation-branding is an unescapable part of globalisation, which is a market-oriented process dominated by the West and predicated on the creation of winners and losers. Hence, efforts to strengthen the national brand or reputation of specific Nordic countries with the aid of gender equality as a political and symbolic value inevitably help to reinforce already established global hierarchies where the Nordics play the role of moral superpower. This book comprises scholars from various fields of specialisation, and provides evidence and understanding for the growing interaction between gender-equality policies and nation-branding in all five Nordic countries. It does so by exploring a variety of policy fields and issues including women’s rights, foreign policy, rape and legislation, female quotas and business policies, in addition to the index industry. The rise of the global indexes has reproduced forceful images of the Nordic countries as frontrunners of gender equality, which indeed help the Nordic countries to further position themselves as ‘best at being good’. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Nordic gender equality in political science, sociology, law, criminology, political psychology and history, as well as those interested in nation branding, Nordic studies and exceptionalism. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003017134, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Rahime Erbaş
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781666925142

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European Perspectives on Attrition in Sexual Offenses by Rahime Erbaş Pdf

Through the critical analyses of various sexual offenses and statistical data, European Perspectives on Attrition in Sexual Offenses demonstrates how cases continue to attrite through their journey from commencement to the finalization within seven different European criminal justice systems.

Author : Trine Rogg Korsvik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030556396

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Politicizing Rape and Pornography by Trine Rogg Korsvik Pdf

This book examines how feminist movements in Norway and France have politicized rape, pornography and sexual exploitation of women from the 1970s to the present. Through a cross-national comparison, it provides insights into why the fight against rape became top priority for French feminists in the 1970s; what kind of strategies the feminist movements used when politicizing sex and violence; who the opponents of the feminist mobilizations were, and who the allies were; as well as what the feminist movements achieved and what the costs of the battles were. This book provides historical context for contemporary and contentious debates about the tension between feminism and sexual freedom, about sexual liberation and abuse, and about the limits of freedom of expression. This text is relevant for students in history, sociology, health, political science, comparative politics and interdisciplinary gender studies. It is also relevant for researchers and activists who are concerned with the history of feminism, feminist politics and sexual politics.

Author : Seppo Rekolainen
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Agricultural pollution
ISBN : 9291209686

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Regionalisation of Erosion and Nitrate Losses from Agricultural Land in Nordic Countries by Seppo Rekolainen Pdf

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Author : Ulrika Andersson,Monika Edgren,Lena Karlsson,Gabriella Nilsson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030138523

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Rape Narratives in Motion by Ulrika Andersson,Monika Edgren,Lena Karlsson,Gabriella Nilsson Pdf

This book critically examines the last few decades of discussion around sex and violence in the media, on social media, in the courtroom and through legislation. The discursive struggles over what constitutes "sexual violence", "victims" and "offenders" is normally determined through narratives: a selective ordering of events and participants. Centrally, the book investigates the social processes involved in the telling of stories of rape and its political implications. From a multidisciplinary feminist perspective, this volume explores what narratives about sexual violence are deemed legitimate at this historical juncture. This volume brings together feminist scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines including law, legal studies, history, gender studies, ethnology, media, criminology and social work from across the globe. Through situated empirical work, these scholars seek to understand currents movements between the criminal justice system and the cultural imagination.

Author : Rachel Killean,Eithne Dowds,Anne-Marie McAlinden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000361278

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Sexual Violence on Trial by Rachel Killean,Eithne Dowds,Anne-Marie McAlinden Pdf

Sexual Violence on Trial provides a contemporary critical examination of the investigation, prosecution and cultural contexts of sexual violence. It draws on Northern Ireland as a case study, while also drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions across the United Kingdom and island of Ireland. Public and academic debates concerning the high-profile ‘Belfast/Rugby Rape Trial’ and the subsequent Gillen review of the arrangements to deliver justice in serious sexual offence cases have been mirrored at a global level with movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp. This book brings together the perspectives of practitioners and academics to discuss contemporary challenges surrounding the societal and legal framing of sexual violence. It examines key aspects of the criminal justice process including the challenges of supporting victims; of responding to a range of forms of sexual violence such as rape, peer abuse, intimate partner violence and forced-to-penetrate cases; as well as alternative perspectives and future reforms. It also considers broader debates including balancing the interests of victims and defendants; the impact of cultural myths and stereotypes; the challenges of the digital age; models of consent; legal representation for victims and anonymity and publicity surrounding trials. Written by leading authorities in the field, Sexual Violence on Trial will be of great interest to students and scholars of Criminology, Law and Sociology.

Author : Anne Hellum,Ingunn Ikdahl,Vibeke Blaker Strand,Eva-Maria Svensson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000959468

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Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change by Anne Hellum,Ingunn Ikdahl,Vibeke Blaker Strand,Eva-Maria Svensson Pdf

The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index –but they have still not succeeded in closing the gender gap. This book draws a diverse and complex picture of the long, uneven, and unfinished process towards substantive equality in four Nordic countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. It presents the Nordic gender equality model’s systematic use of three measures: overarching gender policies, legislation that has an explicit or implicit impact on gender relations, and gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low-threshold enforcement systems. What potentials and limitations do the Nordic gender equality and anti-discrimination law regimes have to combat individual discrimination and structural inequality? Can these regimes function as a driver of political, legal, economic, cultural, and social change and as a corrective to laws, policies, and practices that uphold existing inequalities and, if so, to what extent? Can weaknesses in the equality and anti-discrimination laws and the way they are enforced hamper efforts to close remaining gender gaps? Rather than looking at the Nordic gender equality laws and policies in isolation, the book situates their development and transformative potential within a changing European and international political and legal landscape.

Author : Eva-Maria Svensson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351152303

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Nordic Equality at a Crossroads by Eva-Maria Svensson Pdf

Originally published in 2004. Nordic Equality at a Crossroads makes a major contribution to the debates on equality and difference in contemporary Europe. In this absorbing work, feminist legal scholars from four Nordic countries provide a critical account of the latest legal policies in these countries linked with gender (in)equality, such as public financing of children's homecare, regulation of the labour market towards substantive equality, and the reforms concerning violence against women. These issues are matters of concern everywhere in Europe, and the solutions adopted in the Nordic countries will be of interest to all policy-makers. The increasing multiculturalism and the shift toward greater market orientation, however, have challenged the traditional Nordic equality policies. The authors argue that a structural and contextual analysis of inequality, also in the field of law, is necessary to encounter the challenge of pluralism.

Author : Douglas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780197651841

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The Criminalization of Violence Against Women by Douglas Pdf

Historically states have failed to seriously confront violence against women. In response, in many countries women's rights movements have called on the government to prioritize state intervention in cases involving violence between intimate partners, sexual harassment, rape, and sexual assault by both strangers and intimate partners. Those interventions have taken various forms, including the passage of substantive civil and criminal laws governing intimate partner violence, rape and sexual assault, and sexual harassment; the development of civil orders of protection; and the introduction of procedures in the criminal legal system to ensure the effective intervention of police and prosecutors. Indeed, many countries have relied upon intervention by the criminal legal system to meet their requirements under international human rights standards that obligate states to prevent, protect from, prosecute, punish, and provide redress for violence. Although states have taken divergent approaches to the passage and implementation of criminal laws and procedures to address violence against women, two things are clear: criminalization is a primary strategy relied upon by most nations, and yet criminalization is not having the desired impact. This collection explores the extent to which nations have adopted criminal legal reforms to address violence against women, the consequences associated with the implementation of those laws and policies, and who bears those consequences most heavily. The chapters examine the need for both more and less criminalization, ask whether we should think differently about criminalization, and explore the tensions that emerge when criminal law, civil law and social policy speak or fail to speak to each other. Drawing on criminalization approaches and recent debates from across the globe, this collection provides a comparative approach to assess the scope, impact of, and alternatives to criminalization in the response to violence against women.

Author : Marianne Inéz Lien,Jørgen Lorentzen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030039943

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Men's Experiences of Violence in Intimate Relationships by Marianne Inéz Lien,Jørgen Lorentzen Pdf

This open access book draws on a broad study on violence against men, from both male and female partners in Norway, to contribute to the research on intimate partner violence. It identifies similarities in men's experiences and backgrounds, including in their perceptions of their own victimisation. Marianne Inez Lien and Jørgen Lorentzen argue that the traditional gender power model should be modified and supplemented, and propose that we consider violence in terms of psychological supremacy, rather than in terms of femininity and masculinity. Men's Experiences of Violence in Intimate Relationships will appeal to students and scholars across a range of areas including criminology, sociology and family violence, and gender studies.

Author : Sara De Vido,Micaela Frulli
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839107757

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Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence by Sara De Vido,Micaela Frulli Pdf

This Commentary provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Council of Europe (CoE) Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention). It offers a complete article-by-article guide to the Convention with reference to the explanatory report, the findings of the monitoring body (GREVIO) and relevant State practice.