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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"victim blame"”.
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“Everything, it was everything”: victim blame, victimism, and responsibilisation
Victim blame is a common and damaging process, which has far-reaching impacts on individuals who have experienced sexual violence and is a key driver of society’s acceptance of violence against women. Despite the knowledge base, there is little consensus as to how victim blame is communicated to …
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Dating Violence Myth Acceptance and Victim Blame Among College Students: Does Gender Matter?
… the potential implications IPV has on the victims requires extensive research and education. The manner in which a victim is responded to by others following abuse may have important implications for their adjustment following IPV. Identifying factors that contribute to the quality of …
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Effects of Contextual and Individual Difference Factors on Perceptions of Victims
<p>Victim blame can have detrimental effects on victims' coping with traumatic events. The current study examined contextual (i.e., victim-observer ingroup membership and safety of the environment) and individual difference (i.e., world beliefs, trauma exposure, and cognitive semantic associations) …
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The Objectification and Blame of Revenge Porn Victims
… the relationship between objectification and victim blame in cases of revenge porn across cases in which the victim was sexually diverse (i.e., bisexual, lesbian, straight). Participants included in this study were straight, cisgender (i.e., identifying with the gender assigned at birth) men …
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Compounding Prejudice? Investigating Canadian Mock Juror Perceptions of Victim Race and Work in the Sex Trade
… high rates of violence in Canada and are often blamed for their victimization. This jury simulation examined how victim race (Indigenous, White) and work in the sex trade (sex worker, non-sex worker) affected mock juror verdicts in a first-degree murder trial. Although victim race and …
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The Mediating Influence of Homophobia on Male Rape Victims
… previous studies by demonstrating differences in victim blame attribution, minimization of rape, and degree of excusing the perpetrator between homosexual and heterosexual victims; 2.) determine if similar patterns will be shown with male victims as with female victims in the demonstration of rape …
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Normalizing Violence Against Women: What Motivates People to Justify the Gender System?
It is possible that rape, and reactions to these victims, act to reinforce the gender system. The gender system is a network of practices meant to (1) differentiate men and women as two distinct categories and (2) organize and justify social inequalities based on these differences. People tend to …
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Sexism and how it mediates the relationship between gender and rape myth acceptance
… their lives. While a rape-supportive culture and victim blame are concepts that aid in explaining rape, understanding societal held ideas about rape and traditional gender role beliefs can explain. Therefore, the present study focuses on how ambivalent sexist belief structures mediate the …
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Sex-Related Alcohol Expectancies And Perceptions Of Sexual Assault: Recognition Response Latency And Blame Attribution
… are able to recognize assaultive behavior) and victim blame attribution. This study evaluated the relationship between AE, SRAE, and perceptions of sexual assault using an audio vignette depicting an acquaintance rape (Marx & Gross, 1995). Measures assessing demographic factors, alcohol …
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Hate: Juror Perceptions of Crime Classification, Attributions of Blame, and Impact of Extra-Legal Factors
… assault ·vs. first degree assault) and victim gender were varied within the context of a sexual orientation motivated (study 1) or gender motivated (study 2) hate crime scenario. Results from the first study indicated that attributions of blame against the victim varied as a function of …
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Assessing the Impact of Media on Blaming the Victim of Acquaintance Rape
Along with the trauma experienced by rape victims due to their assault, many victims also suffer secondary victimization due to the negative reactions of those around them. Among these negative reactions, perhaps the most damaging is the tendency to blame victims for their assault, particularly in …
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Heterosexual and lesbian women's attributions of domestic violence and myth endorsement behaviors
… effect of participants’ egalitarianism on their victim blaming behaviors and the effect of their own victimization on their perpetrator blaming behaviors. Analyses were also conducted to examine the relationship between attribution behaviors and myth endorsement behaviors. ANOVA results indicated …
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African American pastors' beliefs and actions regarding childhood incest in the African American community
… in the state of Texas. Jackson Incest Blame Scale (JIBS) and Personal Background Questionnaire (PBQ) were used to answer the five research questions. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of this study indicated that African American pastors …
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African American pastors' beliefs and actions regarding childhood incest in the African American community
… in the state of Texas. Jackson Incest Blame Scale (JIBS) and Personal Background Questionnaire (PBQ) were used to answer the five research questions. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of this study indicated that African American pastors …
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No Halos For Sex Offenders: An Examination Of The Effects Of Appearance And Gender On The Perception Of Sex Offenders
… been stereotyped into being strangers to the victim and "dirty old men." However, recent research has shown that the public is no longer endorsing those stereotypes (Fuselier, Durham, & Wurtele, 2002; Levenson, Brannon, Fortney, & Baker, 2007). Instead the public is realizing that there is no …
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Male rape myths: Measurement and relation to the gender role strain paradigm
… (1) Marginalization and Homophobia and (2) Victim Blame and Denial of Trauma. Results of the confirmatory factor analyses provided support for bifactor and correlated two-factor models of the MRMS-R. Criterion validity was supported based on (a) differences in MRMS-R scores between men and …
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Investigating a Potential Function of Belief in a Just World: Providing Purpose in Life as a Pathway to Subjective Well-Being
… and implications for theory as well as reducing victim blame and supporting victims of trauma.
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Cyber-Sexism and Sexual Assault: Impact and a Step Towards Intervention.
… with higher propensity to rape, and higher victim blame attribution in sexual violence cases. There is little literature focussed on whether cyber sexism can have the same effect as offline sexism. The aim of this thesis is to examine the impact of cyber sexism on individuals on performance …
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COLLEGE STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARD RAPE: A COMPARISON OF NEW ZEALAND AND THE UNITED STATES.
… study used the "Attitudes Toward Rape Victims Survey" (ARVS), designed by Ward (1984), to examine the attitudes of college students in New Zealand and the United States. The instrument (ARVS) is the first of its kind to test for victim blame, and the first to be limited to the …
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Walk like a man: a content analysis of anti-sexual violence websites for men
… found most prevalent on the androgynous sites. Victim blame was found on all four sites. No differences were found between the nonprofit and governmental sites. The messages on these sites may explicitly endorse an anti-sexual assault agenda, but the text and images contain gender stereotypes …
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