ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the ways in which positions as victims and offenders in cases involving child sexual abuse within the family in the period 1933–67 were negotiated between the police authorities and the family members involved. Dichotomous stereotypes, such as the “decent girl” versus the “immoral adolescent” and the “seduced adult” versus the “child molester” were an underlying focal point during the interrogations and used (consciously or unconsciously) by the police and the families in connection with attribution of moral responsibility for the crime. This was despite the fact that the new Penal Code of 1930 (in force 1933) had exempted the younger party under the age of 18 from punishment.
