This study examines how female offenders are represented in Swedish district court judgments concerning possession of pepper spray classified as minor weapons offences under the Swedish Weapons Act (1996:67). The aim is to analyze how female offenders are constructed through the language of judicial reasoning and how notions of gender, responsibility and deviance are reproduced within court discourse. While the study is primarily situated within a sociological framework, its results may also be related to criminological contexts. The empirical material consists of guilty verdicts from Swedish district courts, analyzed through critical discourse analysis based on Fairclough's (2019) three dimensional model and J?ger's (2001) concept of the discursive plane.

?r 2018 reformerades svensk sexualbrottslagstiftning och samtyckeslagen inf?rs. Brottet v?ldt?kt i brottsbalken 6 kap. 1 ? st?ller inte l?ngre krav p? att det f?rekommit hot och/eller v?ld f?r att det ska ses som en v?ldt?kt, ist?llet ?r det tillr?ckligt att motparten inte deltog frivilligt.