Criminally Queer Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999

• Main Author: Rydström, Jens (auth)
• Other Authors: Mustola, Kati (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Aksant Academic Publishers 2007
• Subjects: History; geschiedenis; history; geography; auxiliary disciplines; Age of consent; Criminal code; Denmark; Finland; Fornication; Greenland; Homosexuality; Human sexual activity; Sexual intercourse; Sweden
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book provides a coherent history of criminal law and homosexuality in Scandinavia 1842-1999, a period during which same-sex love was outlawed or subject to more or less severe legal restrictions in the Scandinavian penal codes. This was the case in most countries in Northern Europe, but the boo...