This article discusses the creation of assault as a crime against health and life as this discursive process is expressed through Swedish laws, legislative discussions, and legal practice from 1945 to 1965. Inspired by Michel Foucault’s theoretical reflections on biopolitics and sociologist Thomas Lemke’s outline to a analytics of biopolitics, the article argues that a most central component in the genealogy of assault as a crime against health and life was a shift in the first post-war decades, from a predominant legal idealistic paradigm within Swedish jurisprudence, by which assault was defined as a crime against bodily integrity, to a legal realistic epistemology, imbued with the scientific knowledge and empirical ‘truth’-producing practices of modern medicine. As an effect, new discourses around the victimized body emerged, through which prevailing knowledges and ‘truths’ around violent crime and its effects were challenged and marginalized. In this discursive process, the 19th-century legal-moral category of violent crimes finally collapsed into the overarching legal category prescribed by Brottsbalken (1965) as ‘crimes against health and life’. Consequently, the victimized body was deprived of all meaning but ‘life’ and thus created as a biopolitical space, available to series of life-governing interventions and regulatory practices.

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走向受害身体的生物政治

本文讨论了将攻击作为危害健康和生命的罪行，因为这一话语过程通过 1945 年至 1965 年的瑞典法律、立法讨论和法律实践来表达。 受米歇尔·福柯对生命政治学的理论反思和社会学家托马斯·莱姆克的大纲启发，对生命政治的分析，文章认为，作为危害健康和生命的犯罪的攻击谱系中最核心的组成部分是战后最初几十年的转变，瑞典法理学中主要的法律理想主义范式是由这种范式定义的作为对身体完整性的犯罪，对于法律现实的认识论，充满了现代医学的科学知识和经验性“真理”产生实践。结果，围绕受害身体的新话语出现了，通过它，有关暴力犯罪及其影响的流行知识和“真相”受到挑战和边缘化。在这个话语过程中，19 世纪的暴力犯罪的法律道德范畴最终瓦解为 Brottsbalken (1965) 规定的“危害健康和生命的罪行”的总体法律范畴。因此，受害的身体被剥夺了除“生命”之外的所有意义，从而被创造为一个生命政治空间，可供一系列生命管理干预和监管实践使用。