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Brott utan handling och förövare:en kritisk diskursanalys av Handbook for legislation on violence against women

Karlsson, Maja LU (2014) GNVK01 20141
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract (Swedish)
This essay contains a critical discourse analysis of the UN document Handbook for legislation on violence against women from 2010. The critical discourse analysis is conducted from a critical feminist perspective and the focus has been on the identified subject positions. The four main subject positions identified are the criminal legal subject, the subject of criminal responsibility, children and stakeholders. I further examined how the criminal legal subject’s and the subject of criminal responsibility’s gender are discursively constructed in relation to the children and the stakeholders. I examined the gender constructions from an intersectional perspective. By this I have concluded that women and men with specific qualities are more... (More)
This essay contains a critical discourse analysis of the UN document Handbook for legislation on violence against women from 2010. The critical discourse analysis is conducted from a critical feminist perspective and the focus has been on the identified subject positions. The four main subject positions identified are the criminal legal subject, the subject of criminal responsibility, children and stakeholders. I further examined how the criminal legal subject’s and the subject of criminal responsibility’s gender are discursively constructed in relation to the children and the stakeholders. I examined the gender constructions from an intersectional perspective. By this I have concluded that women and men with specific qualities are more likely than others to obtain protection and be punished from the proposals in the document. I found that the reason for the stakeholders to obtain a subject position at all is because they discursively are attributed with the responsibility for protecting the criminal legal subject and that the discourse of responsibility makes some actions visible while some become invisible. I also found that responsibility dis-course attributes to stakeholders that cannot be legislated into existence much responsibility, which entails the abolition of protection cannot be reached by legislation. (Less)
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author
Karlsson, Maja LU
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GNVK01 20141
year
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Handbook for legislation on violence against women, critical discourse analysis, subject positions, men’s violence against women, gender constructions
language
Swedish
id
4467087
date added to LUP
2014-06-19 13:54:53
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2014-06-19 13:54:53
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  abstract     = {{This essay contains a critical discourse analysis of the UN document Handbook for legislation on violence against women from 2010. The critical discourse analysis is conducted from a critical feminist perspective and the focus has been on the identified subject positions. The four main subject positions identified are the criminal legal subject, the subject of criminal responsibility, children and stakeholders. I further examined how the criminal legal subject’s and the subject of criminal responsibility’s gender are discursively constructed in relation to the children and the stakeholders. I examined the gender constructions from an intersectional perspective. By this I have concluded that women and men with specific qualities are more likely than others to obtain protection and be punished from the proposals in the document. I found that the reason for the stakeholders to obtain a subject position at all is because they discursively are attributed with the responsibility for protecting the criminal legal subject and that the discourse of responsibility makes some actions visible while some become invisible. I also found that responsibility dis-course attributes to stakeholders that cannot be legislated into existence much responsibility, which entails the abolition of protection cannot be reached by legislation.}},
  author       = {{Karlsson, Maja}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Brott utan handling och förövare:en kritisk diskursanalys av Handbook for legislation on violence against women}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}