"What are the Sexual Offences?"
Our law criminalizes a broad array of sexual, and sex-related, conduct - in offenses as varied as rape, child grooming, female genital mutilation, sexual transmission of disease, prostitution, incest, voyeurism, exhibitionism, polygamy, and sadomasochistic assault. This lecture will consider three basic issues: First, what, if anything, do the sexual offenses have in common? Second, what distinguishes them from other kinds of criminal offenses? And, third, what value is there in looking at the sexual offenses category as a Whole?
About Professor Stuart P. Green
Professor Green is Distinguished Professor of Law and Nathan L. Jacobs Scholar at Rutger’s School of Law, New Jersey, USA.
Green has previously published several books and numerous articles on various topics of criminal law. His books include Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime (OUP 2006), Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age (Harvard University Press 2012), and Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (co-edited with Antony Duff) (OUP 2011).Green is currently working on a new book, titled Criminalizing Sex, which will offer a ‘unified’ theory of the non-consensual and consensual sexual offenses. His talk at UiO will be based on the findings of this current Project.
Prepared comments
Anja Kruse, doctoral candidate at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS), and Thomas Frøberg, acting senior state prosecutor at the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Regional Public Prosecution Offices
Fields of interest
This lecture will be of particular interest for those dealing with criminal law and criminology.