Solveig Laugerud

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Solveig Laugerud is a postdoctoral researcher in EVIDENTLY RAPE a Convergence Environment funded by UIO:Life Science.

Background

Laugerud defended her PhD thesis “The Legible Rape Victim: How Disciplinary Discourses in the Legal System create a New Victim Identity” in 2020. In her thesis, Laugerud analyzes how rape victims become entangled in a network of experts that discipline their conduct after a rape. Laugerud’s dissertation, which is based on qualitative analysis of legal decisions from the Compensation Authorities and criminal courts as well as interviews with female victims of sexual violence, shows how the disciplinary discourses in the Legal System on the one hand increases victims' agency, and on the other hand, increases victims' responsibility.

Laugerud has previously been a guest researcher at the «Center for the Study of Law and Society» at Berkeley Law.

Previously Laugerud worked at the Centre for Gender Research at University of Oslo and the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies.

Academic interests

Laugerud's main research interests are knowledge production and use at the intersection of law, science, and technology in relation to institutional responses to crime victims, particularly victims of sexual violence, domestic violence, and terror. This includes research on the women’s movement, particularly the shelter movement; victims’ participation in legal proceedings; the increasing importance of expertise (in terms of medical, psychological, forensic scientific, and juridical knowledge) in the area of sexual violence; people’s and institutions’ trust in expert knowledge; decisionmakers’ use of various forms of expert knowledge, discretion, and common sense; and the relationships between law and politics, and between bureaucratic and professional norms. Laugerud is a sociolegal scholar inspired by science and technology studies (STS) and the sociology of knowledge. In her research, she combines knowledge, concepts, and theories from sociolegal studies, criminology, law, sociology, anthropology, psychology, feminist theory, and gender research. This means that her research is interdisciplinary and innovative, as it seeks to explore new ways of knowing how knowledge production and use shape and are shaped by people’s agency and meaning-making processes.

Keywords:

  • Knowledge production and knowledge translation
  • Interpretation of evidence in the Legal System
  • Sexual Violence
  • Victims and victims’ rights
  • Gender equality and Human rights
  • Gender and Feminism
  • The Women’s movement and the Shelter movement
  • Terror

Courses taught

KRIM2000: Sentrale teoretiske perspektiver

KFL2032/4032: Seksualitetsstudier og kjønn

KFL2060/4060: Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries 

KRIM2953/4953: Criminological Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality and Violence

KRIM2101: Fordypningsoppgave i kriminologi

KFL4050: Theorizing Gender Equality

KFL1020: Kjønn og vitenskap: teorier om kjønn

KFL1010: Innføring I tverrfaglige kjønnsstudier

 

Tags: Evidence, DNA, Gender, Power, The courts and the criminal justice system, Sexual offenses, Social movements, Terrorism, Sociology of Law

Publications

  • 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. Full text in Research Archive
  • 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), p. 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. p. 1–19. doi: 10.1057/s41292-019-00178-0. Full text in Research Archive
  • Laugerud, Solveig (2019). Common Sense, (Ab)normality and Bodies in Norwegian Rape Verdicts. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. ISSN 0803-8740. p. 1–12. doi: 10.1080/08038740.2019.1697748. Full text in Research Archive
  • 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), p. 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), p. 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. p. 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. p. 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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Published Sep. 14, 2020 3:53 PM - Last modified Oct. 21, 2023 12:04 PM