Victimology is still a neglected field in Swedish legal science. The crime victim's contacts with the Swedish judicial system have not been adequately studied. This critique is relevant when it comes to the legal regulations as well as questions regarding attitudes towards and treatment of crime victims in the judicial system. This project aims at establishing the victimology perspective in legal science. Through an analysis of the established legal discourses within criminal and procedural law, the discourse of the ideal crime victim is problematised. Fundamental legal constructions, such as rule of law, legal rights and equality of rights will be deconstructed and aspects such as human rights will be put in focus.
Initially, two areas will be studied. Legal science and the tasks of the police organisation will be problematised in the context of the duty to inform victims of crime of their rights. The other area consists of fundamental theoretical aspects of the legal standing of crime victims. Here an extended gender perspective will be applied, where the focus will be on LGBT-people (i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons) and their contacts with the judicial system.