The master's thesis deals with the social and judicial aspects of the treatment of
sexual violence, as the law should reflect the values of a certain society. In the work, I present the attitude of modern Slovenian society towards sexual violence, how it is reproduced, under what circumstances is it still tolerated, when and how it is sanctioned, and how this attitude affects the victims' decisions to report.
In the theoretical part, I first present the definition of sexual violence and focus on the social and judicial aspects of its treatment. It is precisely because of the social aspect that a gray field appears and therefore the work focuses on the reasons why victims of sexual violence do not report the violence. I will also focus on the criminal treatment of sexual violence; the practices we have to protect victims, secondary victimization, public response, etc.
In the empirical part, through interviews with 6 people who have experienced sexual violence, I find out how they faced the experience, whether they reported sexual violence and what the reactions or procedures were. At the same time, I investigate how people close to them who they have told reacted, how the public reacted, or how the justice system reacted.
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