Essays about: "rapist"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word rapist.

  1. 1. Tragic Tales of ‘Victims’ and ‘Villains’ – A Study on Narratives and Emotions in Danish Rape Trials

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Kristine Louise Kristensen; [2023]
    Keywords : narrative; trial; rape; emotion; genres; story characters; rape myths; court ethnography; Law and Political Science; Cultural Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Given the fact that rape is difficult to prove in court and trials primarily are based on the defendant’s word against the plaintiff’s, it becomes highly significant to study the narratives about rape presented in criminal trials. This thesis is an ethnographic-inspired study conduct-ed in Danish courts from January to May 2023. READ MORE

  3. 2. An Inquiry Into State Responsibility Through the Lens of the Social Contract Theory and Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights : A Single Case Study Analysis of the Swedish Serial Rapist “Hagamannen”

    University essay from

    Author : Nadja Carlborg; [2022]
    Keywords : Fear of sexual violence; freedom from fear; Hagamannen; violence against women; Article 5 ECHR;

    Abstract : This study is a single case study to investigate the connection between women's fear of sexual violence, human rights, and the state's responsibility to protect women from the fear of sexual violence. The thesis accomplishes this by combining existing research on sexual violence and fear of sexual violence, as well as its relationship to human rights, with a case study based on the Haga Man, a serial rapist in Sweden. READ MORE

  4. 3. ‘The Gaps Between Stories’ : Examining the Gray Area of Sexual Consent in The Handmaid’s Tale

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Paulina Sundqvist; [2022]
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    Abstract : This project’s aim was to examine how the institutionalization of rape and sexual violence becomes problematic if analyzed through the conceptual lens of consent and complicity. After this close reading of consent and sexual violence, the answers are still not clear or easily discerned. READ MORE

  5. 4. A Clinging Embrace : A Study of the Female Rapist in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Koivunen; [2018]
    Keywords : metamorphoses; salmacis; hermaphroditus; europa; jupiter; rape; female rapist; desire; desiring subjects; ovid;

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  6. 5. Maybe he didn’t intend to rape her: a critical discourse analysis of the district courts conceptualization of the defendant in rape verdicts.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Louise Fischer; [2017]
    Keywords : defendant; discourses; district court; masculinity; rape; rapist; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Previous research show, people interpret others through their pre-understanding and stereotypical beliefs. Rape crimes are periodically debated in the Swedish media. The debates often elucidate laws incapability to manage the complexity of rape, focusing on the women as the injured party. READ MORE