Solveig Laugerud

• Antonsdóttir, Hildur Fjóla & Laugerud, Solveig (2024). The Norwegian Victim Lawyer in a Nordic Context: Professional Boundaries, Legal Hierarchies and Purification Processes. International Criminology. ISSN 2662-9976. doi: 10.1007/s43576-024-00117-5.
• Laugerud, Solveig & Skilbrei, May-Len (2023). Contested, Discounted and Disproven Stories of Rape: The Social Pathways of Rape Reporting. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azad076.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2023). The Victimised Body: Sexual Violence, Incapacity, and the Materialisation of Unconscious Bodies in Rape Verdicts. Body & Society. ISSN 1357-034X. 29(4). doi: 10.1177/1357034X231201942.
• Houge, Anette Bringedal & Laugerud, Solveig (2023). “Unconscious or for Other Reasons Incapable of Resisting”: (Un)Protected Sexual Assault Under Norwegian Criminal Law. Violence against Women. ISSN 1077-8012. doi: 10.1177/10778012231181048. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Laugerud, Solveig (2023). Søvnens kraft: en analyse av begrepet og fenomenet sovevoldtekt. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 2535-2512. 7(2). doi: 10.18261/nost.7.2.1.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2021). Betroelsenes makt: en analyse av hvordan retten konstruerer troverdige voldtektsofre. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 45(4), s. 215–231. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2021-04-05.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2020). “It’s All Just a Game”: How Victims of Rape Invoke the Game Metaphor to Add Meaning and Create Agency in Relation to Legal Trials. Feminist Legal Studies. ISSN 0966-3622. doi: 10.1007/s10691-020-09444-0.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2020). Embodied truths and authentic selves: The constitution of evidence and credibility in rape cases . The International Journal of Evidence & Proof. ISSN 1365-7127. doi: 10.1177/1365712720928668.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2019). Narrating the harm of rape: how rape victims invoke different models of psychological trauma. BioSocieties. ISSN 1745-8552. s. 1–19. doi: 10.1057/s41292-019-00178-0. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Psychological trauma has become the main framework for understanding the impact of rape on individual victims. Trauma has traditionally been understood as a mental illness conceptualized in opposition to normality. This dichotomous model of trauma is now in competition with a scale model in which trauma is conceptualized on a scale of normality. In this article, I study these two models of trauma by analyzing victims’ narratives of rape. I investigate how trauma emerges in victims’ narratives of rape to consider the ways in which the trauma discourse contributes to shaping how victims make sense of, and respond to, experiences of rape. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with rape victims. I argue that the interviewees primarily talk about trauma on a scale of normality in which they portray trauma as something they can develop if they do not take responsibility for their health. In this way, they can escape trauma and, accordingly, the potential stigmatizing effects of psychiatric labels. At the same time, however, escaping trauma in this manner makes trauma inescapable, as it entails their continued commitment to take responsibility for their health.

• Laugerud, Solveig (2019). Common Sense, (Ab)normality and Bodies in Norwegian Rape Verdicts. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. ISSN 0803-8740. s. 1–12. doi: 10.1080/08038740.2019.1697748. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Common sense, which refers to judgement rooted in everyday life experiences, constitutes an important part of legal decisions. In this article, I study how the female victim’s body appears in written rape verdicts, by investigating how common sense invokes ideas about the normal and the abnormal. This builds on a discourse analysis of written rape verdicts handed down by Norwegian courts. I find that the (female) victim’s body in these is problematized if its size and shape is considered uncommon and that the more (un)common something/someone is considered, the more (ab)normal that event/person is perceived to be. I argue that common sense reasoning becomes a normalizing legal gaze directed towards the female victim’s body in a way that makes the court evaluate the body’s relation to the norm to assess whether the incident was rape or consensual sex.

• Laugerud, Solveig & Langballe, Åse (2017). Turning the Witness Stand into a Speaker's Platform: Victim Participation in the Norwegian Legal System as Exemplified by the Trial Against Anders Behring Breivik. Law & Society Review. ISSN 0023-9216. 51(2), s. 227–251. doi: 10.1111/lasr.12268.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2014). Juss og juks - igjen? Om uavhengighet og likestilling i krisesenterloven :. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 38(3/4), s. 287–301.

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• Bjørnholt, Margunn & Laugerud, Solveig (2023). Leder. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. doi: 10.18261/tfk.47.2.1.
• Laugerud, Solveig & Skilbrei, May-Len (2023). DNA-optimismens endelige fall? Dagsavisen. ISSN 1503-2892.
• Houge, Anette Bringedal & Laugerud, Solveig (2023). En tilsynelatende liten endring i straffeloven kan få stor betydning i voldtektssaker. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Houge, Anette Bringedal & Laugerud, Solveig (2022). Vurderinger av bevis og troverdighet i voldtektssaker.
• Houge, Anette Bringedal & Laugerud, Solveig (2022). Ute av stand til å motsette seg - noen funn fra Evidently rape.
• Kaufmann, Mareile; Skilbrei, May-Len & Laugerud, Solveig (2022). Evidence in Motion Conference.
• Houge, Anette Bringedal & Laugerud, Solveig (2022). Vurderinger av bevis og troverdighet i voldtektssaker.
• Houge, Anette Bringedal & Laugerud, Solveig (2022). Ute av stand til å motsette seg. Foreløpige funn fra Evidently rape.
• Houge, Anette Bringedal & Laugerud, Solveig (2022). Unconscious or for other reasons incapable of resisting: Sexual harms that are (un)protected by the incapacity requirement in Norwegian criminal law [paper presentation] .
• Houge, Anette Bringedal & Laugerud, Solveig (2022). A crime too ordinary: reflections on 'ordinary' sexual violence in the Norwegian context [panel].
• Laugerud, Solveig (2022). Betroelsenes makt: om troverdighet i saken mot Gaute Drevdal. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
• Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora; Houge, Anette Bringedal & Laugerud, Solveig (2022). When Terrorists Mobilize Law: Reflections on justice and closure after July 22. PRIO Blogs.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2021). Forskningspodkast. Intervju. Hvem er det troverdige voldtektsofferet i dagens rettssystem? Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2021). Overlevendes møte med retten. Vitnerollen i straffesaken.
• Houge, Anette Bringedal; Johannessen, Helen Maria; Laugerud, Solveig & Hennum, Ragnhild Helene (2021). Evidently Rape - Medisinsk, legal og allmenn forståelse av fysiske bevis i voldtektssaker. Bevis. ISSN 0803-3544. s. 29–32.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2020). Umoderne lovforslag. Dagsavisen. ISSN 1503-2892.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2020). Intervju. "Hva er ‘normal’ oppførsel etter en voldtekt?". KILDEN : informasjonssenter for kjønnsforskning.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2020). Anja Bredal, Helga Eggebø og Astrid M. A. Eriksen (red.): Vold i nære relasjoner i et mangfoldig Norge. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. s. 299–302. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2020-04-05.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2007). Offerposisjonens tilgjengelighet. Bulletine. ISSN 1891-1420.
• Johansen, Per Ole; Nadheim, Erik & Laugerud, Solveig (2009). Tiltak for voldsutsatte minoritetskvinner. Noen nordiske erfaringer. Nordisk ministerråd (TemaNord).
• Laugerud, Solveig (2009). Smertefulle endringsprosesser. En undersøkelse av arbeidsmiljøet ved utvalgte krisesentre. Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter om vold og traumatisk stress. ISSN 978-82-8122-027-0.
• Laugerud, Solveig (2007). En splittet offeropplevelse, et offerperspektiv på seksuelle overgrep og rettsvesenet. Universitetet i Oslo.

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