Doctoral student
I completed my doctoral studies in March 2015 and I am currently engaged as researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of law, Lund university. My research interests are broadly in the field of law, gender and sexuality with focus on criminal law and feminist legal theory.
My doctoral thesis is concerned with the question: What is considered a sexual offense and what constitutes the sexual integrity protected by Swedish criminal law? Through a comprehensive historical, theoretical and doctrinal analysis, the thesis considers how distinctions between sexual and other forms of violence, abuse or harassment are made in criminal law. Firstly, the thesis explores the emergence of sexual offenses in the period when modern criminal law was formed. Secondly, Niklas Luhmann's theory of law as an autopoietic system is used to show how sexual offenses are created anew – reproduced – through every communication of the legal system. Particular attention is given to the crime of sexual harassment (ch. 6 sec. 10 Penal Code).
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My doctoral thesis is concerned with the question: What is considered a sexual offense and what constitutes the sexual integrity protected by Swedish criminal law? Through a comprehensive historical, theoretical and doctrinal analysis, the thesis considers how distinctions between sexual and other forms of violence, abuse or harassment are made in criminal law. Firstly, the thesis explores the emergence of sexual offenses in the period when modern criminal law was formed. Secondly, Niklas Luhmann's theory of law as an autopoietic system is used to show how sexual offenses are created anew – reproduced – through every communication of the legal system. Particular attention is given to the crime of sexual harassment (ch. 6 sec. 10 Penal Code).
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About Linnéa Wegerstad
I completed my doctoral studies in March 2015 and I am currently engaged as researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of law, Lund university. My research interests are broadly in the field of law, gender and sexuality with focus on criminal law and feminist legal theory.
My doctoral thesis is concerned with the question: What is considered a sexual offense and what constitutes the sexual integrity protected by Swedish criminal law? Through a comprehensive historical, theoretical and doctrinal analysis, the thesis considers how distinctions between sexual and other forms of violence, abuse or harassment are made in criminal law. Firstly, the thesis explores the emergence of sexual offenses in the period when modern criminal law was formed. Secondly, Niklas Luhmann's theory of law as an autopoietic system is used to show how sexual offenses are created anew – reproduced – through every communication of the legal system. Particular attention is given to the crime of sexual harassment (ch. 6 sec. 10 Penal Code).
My doctoral thesis is concerned with the question: What is considered a sexual offense and what constitutes the sexual integrity protected by Swedish criminal law? Through a comprehensive historical, theoretical and doctrinal analysis, the thesis considers how distinctions between sexual and other forms of violence, abuse or harassment are made in criminal law. Firstly, the thesis explores the emergence of sexual offenses in the period when modern criminal law was formed. Secondly, Niklas Luhmann's theory of law as an autopoietic system is used to show how sexual offenses are created anew – reproduced – through every communication of the legal system. Particular attention is given to the crime of sexual harassment (ch. 6 sec. 10 Penal Code).
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