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Ett sekel av våldtäktsbrottet - En undersökning av våldtäktsbrottets utveckling sedan början av 1900-talet

Wahlgren, Alice LU (2022) LAGF03 20221
Department of Law
Faculty of Law
Abstract
The purpose of this essay is to investigate how the offence of rape has developed in the swedish legislation during the last century. The essay first contains a discription of the offence as stipulated in the criminal law from 1864. I thereafter describe all the reforms of the offence that have been made in the Penal Code until 2018, which is the applicable law today. What the governments intentions and reasons with every reform was is a part of that description.

The offence of rape today has expanded to include many more acts and situations than in the beginning of the last century. During the beginning of the time I have investigated could only women be raped, and men be the rapists. Today the crime is gender neutral, and therefore... (More)
The purpose of this essay is to investigate how the offence of rape has developed in the swedish legislation during the last century. The essay first contains a discription of the offence as stipulated in the criminal law from 1864. I thereafter describe all the reforms of the offence that have been made in the Penal Code until 2018, which is the applicable law today. What the governments intentions and reasons with every reform was is a part of that description.

The offence of rape today has expanded to include many more acts and situations than in the beginning of the last century. During the beginning of the time I have investigated could only women be raped, and men be the rapists. Today the crime is gender neutral, and therefore everyone can be the victim and the perpetrator. The criminalized sexual acts was at first only sexual intercourse between a man and a woman that had been forced. That developed into the consent-based lagislation we have today that means that the punishable sexual acts are the ones where the participation was not voluntary. There is after 2018 no requirements of force or violence in the offence of rape. (Less)
Abstract (Swedish)
Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur våldtäktsbrottet har förändrats i lagstiftningen under de senaste 100 åren. Jag börjar med att beskriva gällande rätt i 1864 års strafflag, och går sedan igenom de reformer som gjorts av våldtäktsbrottet i brottsbalken fram till vad som stadgas idag i den så kallade samtyckeslagen. Jag beskriver hur lagstiftaren har motiverat sina reformer av brottet och vad deras syften med dem har varit.

För att vara kortfattad har våldtäktsbrottet gått från att vara ett könsbestämt brott där bara en man kunde vara gärningspersonen och en kvinna vara offret, till att vara könsneutralt och därmed skydda alla individer. Den kriminaliserade sexualhandlingen har gått från att enbart avse påtvingade vaginala... (More)
Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur våldtäktsbrottet har förändrats i lagstiftningen under de senaste 100 åren. Jag börjar med att beskriva gällande rätt i 1864 års strafflag, och går sedan igenom de reformer som gjorts av våldtäktsbrottet i brottsbalken fram till vad som stadgas idag i den så kallade samtyckeslagen. Jag beskriver hur lagstiftaren har motiverat sina reformer av brottet och vad deras syften med dem har varit.

För att vara kortfattad har våldtäktsbrottet gått från att vara ett könsbestämt brott där bara en man kunde vara gärningspersonen och en kvinna vara offret, till att vara könsneutralt och därmed skydda alla individer. Den kriminaliserade sexualhandlingen har gått från att enbart avse påtvingade vaginala samlag som genomförts med hot eller våld till att omfatta alla handlingar som sett till kränkningen av handlingen är jämförliga med vaginalt samlag som genomförts utan målsägandes samtycke. Våldet som krävdes i början på 1900-talet skulle vara absolut, men idag finns det inget krav på något våld alls. Således har brottet utvidgats till att omfatta väldigt många fler gärningar och situationer under det senaste seklet. (Less)
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Wahlgren, Alice LU
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LAGF03 20221
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
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Straffrätt, rättshistoria
language
Swedish
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9080948
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2022-06-28 11:24:19
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2022-06-28 11:24:19
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The offence of rape today has expanded to include many more acts and situations than in the beginning of the last century. During the beginning of the time I have investigated could only women be raped, and men be the rapists. Today the crime is gender neutral, and therefore everyone can be the victim and the perpetrator. The criminalized sexual acts was at first only sexual intercourse between a man and a woman that had been forced. That developed into the consent-based lagislation we have today that means that the punishable sexual acts are the ones where the participation was not voluntary. There is after 2018 no requirements of force or violence in the offence of rape.}},
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  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Ett sekel av våldtäktsbrottet - En undersökning av våldtäktsbrottets utveckling sedan början av 1900-talet}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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