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- Mellgren, Caroline, et al.
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Mäns våld mot kvinnor bör ses som hatbrott
- 2017
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Ingår i: Svenska Dagbladet. - 1101-2412. ; :2017-09-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Våld och hot om våld mot kvinnor drabbar inte bara den enskilda. Dessa brott sänder en signal till hela den grupp som brottsoffret tillhör att de inte är säkra. Vi vill därför uppmana till en översyn av hatbrottslagstiftningen, skriver Caroline Mellgren, docent i kriminologi, tillsammans med David Brax och Moa Bladini.
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- Bladini, Moa, 1979, et al.
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Autonomy and Beyond – Voluntariness in the Light of Lived Autonomy
- 2021
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Ingår i: Retfærd. Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift. - 0105-1121. ; 44:3 & 4 /170, s. 35-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we aim to introduce and discuss the use of an everyday life-based understanding of autonomy that recognises the fact that a person’s autonomy is constantly changing, rather than stuck in given categories. We call this understanding of autonomy lived autonomy and suggest it be used as an analytical tool in legal research. We use a flower to symbolise the lived aspect of autonomy to underline how autonomy is constantly changing and thus demonstrate that person’s autonomy is elastic. A person’s autonomy can be diminished or expanded over time due to relational, time and spatial boundaries, i.e., everyday life that consists of an endless variety of aspects. Inspired by Smith, we use the concept of everyday life perspective to capture the human being as a subject rooted in everyday life. In addition to Smith’s daily routines and activities, we add cognitive and bodily memories, as well as symbols, patterns, knowledge and experiences. These are aspects of everyday life that we use as active subjects to express, for example, will, desire and needs. These aspects, perceived as well as inherited and shared memories, knowledge and experiences, can also be obstacles to expressing our will, desire or need. The concept is described and developed with the new consent-based regulation of rape as an example, in particular in relation to the criterion of voluntariness. The article starts by placing the concept of autonomy in a broader context and introduces autonomy as a concept in philosophical and legal theory, followed by a feminist critique of the traditional liberal understanding of autonomy. Then, the everyday life perspective is introduced to develop the understanding of the concept, from the traditional one towards an everyday life-based understanding of autonomy, lived autonomy. As an example of how lived autonomy can be used as an analytical tool in legal research, we apply the concept in relation to the new requisite of voluntariness in the Swedish rape legislation that came into force July 2018. Additionally, the everyday life-based understanding of autonomy also has a communicative function, and as such, the concept serves as a link between the local context and at the same time as part of an international academic debate of one of the core issues of within legal scholarship. But also, as a link between law and reality in both local and global perspective.
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- Bladini, Moa, 1979, et al.
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Introduction
- 2021
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Ingår i: Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. - 1894-4183. ; 8:2, s. 1-4
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this special issue of Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice we scrutinise the criminal regulation of rape in the Nordic countries. Each contribution gives an introduction and overview of the legal definitions, developments of and discussions on the rape offence from a national perspective. All of the contributions address present debates and reforms but also includes historical developments.
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- Bladini, Moa, 1979, et al.
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Introduction. Balancing criminal law- vulnerabilities as an interest to protect by and from criminal law.
- 2021
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Ingår i: Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. - 1894-4183. ; 9:2, s. 1-7
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This Special Issue has been developed through the work of the Nordic Women’s Net-work in Criminal Law and is dedicated to our dear late colleague and friend professor emerita Madeleine Leijonhufvud (in memoriam). Leijonhufvud was the first woman to take her doctorate and to become a professor in Criminal Law in Sweden. She was engaged in various societal areas and involved in the public debate and policy making on issues such as pornography, procuring and the rape legislation. Leijonhufvud’s assiduous work, never-ending and patient commitment and efforts to create gender equal living conditions, and especially to combating men’s violence against women and girls, the network wishes to dedicate this special issue to her memory. Societal challenges inevitably raise fundamental questions about power and the exercise of power. What role does media descriptions of realities play and how are these interpreted and reformulated as part of a political agenda? How does the government exercise its power against individuals through the use of law, and in particular the criminal law, to deal with societal problems connected to these challenges? We see the tendencies of an offensive criminal law but at the same time a hesitation against the use of criminal law combatting violence against women. The contributions in this special issue discusses and point to the difficulty to strike a balance between the rule of law and the interests of the perpetrator as well as of the victim/survivor.
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- Bladini, Moa, 1979, et al.
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‘It sounds like lived experience’ - On empathy in rape trials
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. - : Elsevier BV. - 1756-0616. ; 72
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article the intrinsic relation between the formal and the informal aspects of rape trials in Sweden will be scrutinized and discussed, for two main reasons (that are intertwined). Firstly, rape cases are characterized by a word-against-word situation, with few other forms of evidence, and with a rate of convictions much lower than for other criminal cases. The fact that the parties’ statements are placed at the core of the presentation and assessment of the evidence leaves much scope for argumentation about normality, rationality, logic and common sense. Secondly, rape trials have been subject to a significant amount of critique, in public as well as in legal debate due to gendered stereotypes, assumptions about autonomy, objectivity, ideal victims, real rape etc. The article aims to explore and shed some light on parts of the continuum of formality and informality in criminal trials in Sweden. By deconstructing rape trials through the lens of the emotion-sociological concept of empathy, the article contributes to deepened knowledge of the work performed by the legal actors in court in general and their work as empathic translators, in particular. We will focus on a specific part of the empathic process, namely emotion management to stage credible testimonies, in the sense that the stories told by the parties and/or witnesses are framed and presented by legal professionals in court as if they have been acting and reacting normal, natural, reasonable and rational. We present the analysis of the intrinsic relationship between the formal framework and the informal work performed by the legal actors, by exploring how the legal concepts are embodied in stories from everyday life in the trial, framed by the legal actors. The analysis includes a description of the stage at which these trials take place (the objectivity ideals and self-images) and the most important formal aspects and parts of the criminal and procedural regulation of rape trials. The article ends with final conclusions and reflections on the continuum of formality and informality in rape trials. The material in the study from which this article derives consists of observations of 18 rape cases, including written judgments and interviews with legal professionals in these cases.
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- Bladini, Moa, 1979
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Om emotioners vara eller icke vara - ett exempel från processrätten
- 2019
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Ingår i: Juridisk publikation. - 2002-3537. ; 2019:02, s. 489-509
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- En domstolsprocess är inte sällan genomsyrad av känslor. Människors livstrauman ligger ofta till grund för den rättsliga prövningen och rättssalen är fylld till brädden av gråt, ilska, nervositet och frustration. Samtidigt är de flesta jurister överens om att en domstolsprocess ska vara objektivt utförd och i en sådan process hör känslor inte hemma. Från ett teoretiskt processrättsligt perspektiv är känslor huvudsakligen en ickefråga, såväl i utbildningen som i den processrättsliga forskningen. I den här artikeln avser jag öppna upp för en diskussion om nya sätt att undersöka och förstå känslors roll i rättsliga processer. Artikeln tar sin utgångspunkt i ett internationellt forskningsfält, law and emotions, och mer specifikt i emotionssociologisk forskning, vilken utgör den teoretiska och metodologiska grunden för den fortsatta diskussionen. Artikelns fokus är därefter tudelat och omfattar dels ett praktiskt perspektiv som visar på hur emotioner används och kan användas i den rättsliga praktiken av olika aktörer, dels ett teoretiskt bidrag som beskriver hur emotionsteori kan användas inom rättsvetenskaplig forskning.
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- Bladini, Moa, 1979
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Rätt utan Sanning? – en reflektion angående Sanningens roll i straffprocessen idag
- 2008
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Ingår i: Nordisk Tidskrift for Kriminalvidenskab. ; :3, s. 243-258
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The legitimacy of the judiciary relies on the presumption that truth can be found through the judicial process. Even though a distinction can be made between “truth” in a legal sense and “real truth”, the legal truth can only be justified by its anchorage in “real truth”. During the last few decades, the previously all-powerful assumption of the objective nature of reality and knowledge has been challenged and criticized. Ideas of a more relativistic character have gained influence in both science and society more generally. This article highlights questions such as how recent challenges to objectivistic views of knowledge and reality affect the legitimacy of the judiciary and the possibility to justify the judiciary and the judicial process as it is designed today without recourse to objective truth. The article also points at recent developments in the criminal procedure from a realistic versus relativistic ideal. Changes in the Code of Judicial Procedure and the Mediation Process as an alternative to the traditional criminal procedure are discussed as examples of these recent developments.
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- Bladini, Moa, 1979
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Silenced Voices. Online Violence Targeting Women as a Threat to Democracy
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal on Law and Society. - : Umea University Library. - 2002-7788. ; 3:2, s. 1-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article I examine from a legal point of view some of the consequences for women, and hence for society in general, of online sexist and misogynist abuse in a Swedish context. I argue that one effect is that women’s living space online is demarcated and ultimately, that it threatens women’s possibilities to participate in public debate online. An everyday life perspective and the continuum of sexual violence, both part of a feminist legal perspective, are used as a theoretical framework to show how online abuse is silencing women. The situation demands action from the state, in order to safeguard freedom of expression and, consequently, democracy. I argue that in this particular situation, two basic aspects of freedom of expression collide: the one most emphasised, the prohibition of censorship, and the less acknowledged aspect, i.e. a diversity of voices. Deficient ways to handle sexist and misogynist online abuse leads to indirect censorship where women’s voices are silenced. Hence, the state must take action not to fail to guarantee justice for all. There are many initiatives addressing problems of online abuse, both internationally and nationally. In this article I seek to capture and examine the Swedish policy and legal regulation (criminal law and freedom of expression) in this area to sketch the legal situation, to highlight ongoing initiatives and pointing out lacunas and obstacles that needs to be dealt with to guarantee a diversity of voices.
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