Challenging Legal Core Values

Consent-Based Rape Legislation in Practice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3753-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book presents the first ethnographic study into a new consent-based rape law in Sweden and shows how the implementation of this legislation challenges outdated legal frameworks and requires a shift in legal practice.

Focusing on the Swedish context, it provides insights that are globally applicable, offering lessons for other countries where consent-based rape laws are in place. By examining the limitations of the conventional legal enactment of autonomy, rationality and objectivity, the authors argue for an evolved approach to ensure fairness and effectiveness. Integrating feminist legal theory with the sociology of emotions, the book reveals how emotional and contextual factors shape legal reasoning.

Aiming to make legal processes for sexual violence more transparent, predictable and democratic worldwide, this is an urgent call for enhanced professional training in emotional reflexivity and empathy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wettergren, Åsa

Bladini, Moa

Uhnoo, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction

1. Background and Outline

2. Legal Framework

3. Theory and Method

Part 2: The Making of Legal Objectivity

4. The Feeling of not Knowing

5. Professional Roles in Objectivity Making

6. The Making and Breaking of Objectivity

Part 3: Autonomy and Rationality of Legal Subjects

7. Autonomy and Action Rationality of Non-Voluntariness

8. The Burden of Explanation

9. The Making and Breaking of Consent Defences

Part 4: Rationality and Autonomy in Legal Decision-Making

10. Navigating Reasonable Doubt in the Judgements

11. Pathways to Knowing

Part 5: Conclusion

12. Core Judicial Values and Beyond

Über Autor(innen)

Åsa Wettergren is Professor in Sociology at the University of Gothenburg.

Moa Bladini is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Gothenburg.

Sara Uhnoo is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Gothenburg.