Har könstillhörighet betydelse? En studie av tingsrättens påföljdsbedömning i misshandelsmål
(2021) RÄSK02 20211Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract (Swedish)
- This paper has examined whether men and women, charged with physical assault in
2019, have been treated equally by the Swedish district court in their sanction
assessment. By doing a quantitative content analysis the content of judgements, handed down by the district courts of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, have been categorized and quantified. The information was categorized by the variables the nature of the crime, the defendant’s sex, the defendant’s age, the penalty and the defendant’s previous criminal record and encoded in an encoding scheme. This resulted in a systematic overview, which clarified similarities and differences in the verdicts.
A thematic content analysis of the judgements handed down by the district court of
... (More) - This paper has examined whether men and women, charged with physical assault in
2019, have been treated equally by the Swedish district court in their sanction
assessment. By doing a quantitative content analysis the content of judgements, handed down by the district courts of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, have been categorized and quantified. The information was categorized by the variables the nature of the crime, the defendant’s sex, the defendant’s age, the penalty and the defendant’s previous criminal record and encoded in an encoding scheme. This resulted in a systematic overview, which clarified similarities and differences in the verdicts.
A thematic content analysis of the judgements handed down by the district court of
Malmö, focusing on the court’s justifications for the verdicts, further provided answers to which factors, according to the district court, have formed the basis for the verdicts. These factors have, based on this paper, been the defendant’s previous criminal history, the defendant’s living conditions, such as substance abuse and alcohol problems and mental illness, and the physical act.
The study has shown that there are some differences in the sanctions imposed on male and female defendants. The results have further shown that the reasons for the sanction decisions have varied depending on the sex of the defendant (Less)
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- author
- Bylund, Emilia LU and Losvik, Eirin LU
- supervisor
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- Jannice Käll LU
- organization
- course
- RÄSK02 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Jämställdhet, misshandel, objektivitet, påföljdsbedömning, tingsrätt.
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9058912
- date added to LUP
- 2021-07-07 12:37:40
- date last changed
- 2021-07-07 12:37:40
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abstract = {{This paper has examined whether men and women, charged with physical assault in
2019, have been treated equally by the Swedish district court in their sanction
assessment. By doing a quantitative content analysis the content of judgements, handed down by the district courts of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, have been categorized and quantified. The information was categorized by the variables the nature of the crime, the defendant’s sex, the defendant’s age, the penalty and the defendant’s previous criminal record and encoded in an encoding scheme. This resulted in a systematic overview, which clarified similarities and differences in the verdicts.
A thematic content analysis of the judgements handed down by the district court of
Malmö, focusing on the court’s justifications for the verdicts, further provided answers to which factors, according to the district court, have formed the basis for the verdicts. These factors have, based on this paper, been the defendant’s previous criminal history, the defendant’s living conditions, such as substance abuse and alcohol problems and mental illness, and the physical act.
The study has shown that there are some differences in the sanctions imposed on male and female defendants. The results have further shown that the reasons for the sanction decisions have varied depending on the sex of the defendant}},
author = {{Bylund, Emilia and Losvik, Eirin}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Har könstillhörighet betydelse? En studie av tingsrättens påföljdsbedömning i misshandelsmål}},
year = {{2021}},
}