A review of the literature relating to rape victim blaming: An analysis of the impact of observer and victim characteristics on attribution of blame in rape cases
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In this article, a distinction between victim and observer characteristics and its separate influence on rape victim blaming was explored by examining the victim characteristics of gender, sexuality, degree of resistance exhibited, and victim-perpetrator relationship.About:
This article is published in Aggression and Violent Behavior.The article was published on 2014-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 165 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Defensive attribution hypothesis & Blame.read more
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Sexism, Rape Myths and Feminist Identification Explain Gender Differences in Attitudes Toward the #metoo Social Media Campaign in Two Countries
TL;DR: The #metoo campaign as mentioned in this paper was the first effort to expose the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault in public domains by encouraging victims to share their experiences with the hashtag #MeToo.
Cannabis sales and immigrant youth gangs: an exploratory study of market structure and youth gang evolution
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on a particular form of denial whereby the businesses try to explain why they have been doing business despite the risks that this has involved, and link together the companies' communications with the contexts in which they occur and the structures that might be expected to influence how the companies choose to frame their communications.
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College Women’s Attributions of Blame for Experiences of Sexual Assault
TL;DR: Examination of rape survivors’ attributions of blame indicated that rape survivors attributed the most blame to themselves and to society, some blame to the situation, and the least blames to the male involved.
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The Exonerating Effect of Sexual Objectification: Sexual Objectification Decreases Rapist Blame in a Stranger Rape Context
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how sexual objectification influences men and women's rape perceptions in case of a stranger rape and found that participants blamed the rapist less in the sexualobjectification condition, regardless of participant gender.
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Against our will : men, women, and rape
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the use and meaning of rape from Biblical times through to Bangladesh and Vietnam, unravels the origins of rape laws in medieval codes and examines interracial and homosexual rape and child molestation.
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TL;DR: This article found that acceptance of rape myths can be predicted from attitudes such as sex role stereotyping, adversarial sexual beliefs, sexual conservatism, and acceptance of interpersonal violence, and that younger and better educated people reveal less stereotypic and adversarial, and proviolence attitudes and less rape myth acceptance.
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The Use of Vignettes in Survey Research
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Characterological Versus Behavioral Self-Blame: Inquiries Into Depression and Rape
TL;DR: In this paper, two types of self-blame (behavioral and characterological) are distinguished: control related and self-belief in the future avoidability of negative outcomes.
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