Myten om jämställdhet : En kvalitativ studie om hur det svenska rättsväsendet befäster en ojämlikhet mellan könen

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this paper is to examine the law regarding gross violations of women and its application in the Swedish legal system. We have investigated how the legal system takes into account a holistic perspective of the vulnerable situation of women in the investigation and assessment and the extent to which psychological violence in the form of verbal abuse, threats and harassment attention. We also wanted to find out how the law's design may contribute to difficulties in the implementation and interpretation of it. In this study, we used a qualitative research approach when we decided to conduct an interview with a police officer and a textual analysis of four cases from the district court. Interview questions were semi-structured in order to gain a deeper understanding of the phenomenon. The previous research we have chosen highlights how the law of gross violations of women came about, how gender is created and made visible in the legal system, and the criticism that has been leveled at the act's applicability. In the analysis of the empirical material we have used the four theoretical perspectives, commercial construction and interpretation of the law, social control, gender power structure and suppression techniques.A brief summary of the results we have found is that there is a clear gender power structure in the Swedish legal system that reinforces female subordination. The laws and the legal system standards are created and maintained by the male norm. The construction of the law contribute to difficulties in the application of the law when the methods that can be used when interpreting results in the judicial assessment performed on insufficient grounds due to subjective values​.We have also recognized a clear pattern that shows that the justice system does not apply a holistic approach in its analysis of the cases where only the physical violence is considered. When they pay attention to the psychological abuse it´s not considered being sufficient evidence for the men to be convicted of gross violations of women. Court cases show that woman's ability to prove the violence she has been subjected to the basis for the district court's judgment regarding the woman's self-esteem. In summary, the results of this study that there is an incorrect application of the law of gross violations of women that lead to women's situation is questioned and the men are not expected to commit the offense was considered to be the reason for the introduction of this law. This occurs due to psychological violence is not considered in the same way as the physical violence which is the basis for how the self-esteem to be valued.