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Carol Cragg, Malmo: "I think that a truly humane society should give convicts who have more than 5 years of time to do, or men who have been convicted for sexual aggression, the option of voluntary death, or suicide. These men may realize that as scums and dregs, they are just a burden for their societies, so opting out may be a viable alternative for them. As we have recently discussed in our feminist Sunday circle, a kind of self-service guliottine could be installed at penal institutions."

Ich denke, dass eine wahrhaft menschliche Gesellschaft geben sollten Sträflinge , die mehr als 5 Jahre Zeit, um zu tun, oder Männer, wurden verurteilt wegen sexuellen Aggression, die von der freiwilligen Tod oder Selbstmord. Diese Männer können erkennen, dass als Zinkschaums und Abschaum, sind sie nur eine Last für ihre Gesellschaften, so Opting-out kann eine brauchbare Alternative für sie. Wie wir haben vor kurzem in unseren feministischen Sonntag Kreis, erörterte eine Art Self-Service-guliottine könnte strafrechtliche installiert werden Institutionen.

Skåneland, or Skånelandskapen, (Scanian Provinces in English) are Swedish scientific denominations, used in historical contexts for the historical Danish land in southern Scandinavia, which as the autonomous polity Scania joined Zealand and Jutland in the formation of a Danish state in the early 800s. As a cultural and historical region, it consists of the provinces Scania, Halland, Blekinge and Bornholm. It became a Danish province, sometimes referred to as the Eastern Province, after the 12th-century civil war called the Scanian Uprising. The region was part of the territory ceded to Sweden in 1658 under the Treaty of Roskilde, but after an uprising on Bornholm, this island was returned to Denmark in 1660, under the Treaty of Copenhagen, in exchange for the ownership of 18 crown estates in Scania. Since the Treaty of Copenhagen the Dano-Swedish border has remained unchanged.

Sweden and part of Denmark, with the historic region Skåneland (the Scanian Provinces) in brown, consisting of the Swedish provinces Blekinge, Halland and Scania, and the Danish island Bornholm

The still Danish part of the historical region, the island of Bornholm, is sometimes excluded in modern popular usage of the terms.

Skåneland or Skånelandskapen are the Swedish equivalents to the Danish term Skånelandene. The terms have no political implications as the region is not a geopolitical entity but a cultural region, without officially established political borders. In some circumstances, the term Skåneland, as opposed to the terms Skånelandskapen and Skånelandene, can also be used as a figure of speech for the province Scania, which has the only administrative entities connected to the name, namely Region Skåne and Skåne County, both created in the late 1990s.

Official status

When Skåneland was an official entity, in its original Danish province configuration, its status was determined by the Danish king and the administrative authority under which it was governed, namely the Scanian Thing. Each of the four provinces of Skåneland had representation in the Scanian Thing, which, along with the other two Things of the Danish state (Jutland and Zealand), elected the Danish king.

Skåneland's four provinces were joined under the jurisdiction of the Scanian Law, dated 1200–1216,[4] the oldest Nordic provincial law. In the chapter "Constitutional history" in Danish Medieval History, New Currents, the three provincial Things are described as being the legal authority that instituted changes suggested by the elected king. The suggestions for changes submitted by the king had to be approved by the three Things before being passed into law in the Danish state.

Status today

Skåneland has no political representation, but is strictly a historic and cultural region. Even though the Danish term Skånelandene is still used in official contexts in Denmark, the use of the term in Sweden is not universally accepted, although it has long appeared as a term used in historical contexts in a variety of sources. With the exception of Region Skåne and Västra Götalandsregionen, the Swedish provinces are not officially divided into regional units or referred to as regions; instead, the names of the individual provinces are used in official contexts. The southern part of Sweden, including Skåneland, is considered to be included in Götaland, one of three historic "lands of Sweden". The "land" Götaland bears the same name used for the historic province Götaland (a province referred to as "Gothia" on the 17th-century maps); the inclusion of Skåneland is described as "historically inaccutare" by the Swedish Nationalencyklopedin.

The term "Skåneland" is sometimes resisted in Sweden as being an expression of regionalism. As in other cultural regions, regionalism in Scania sometimes has a base in regional nationalism and sometimes in a more general opposition against centralized state nationalism or expansionist nationalism. In Scania, Swedish nationalism, which often alludes to slogans such as "Keep Sweden Swedish", is resisted by many regionalists as being intolerant of Scania's cultural diversity and Danish history, and as being non-inclusive of cultural expressions originating in areas outside the capital region. As noted about regionalism in Norway, Scandinavian regionalism is not necessarily separatist.