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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"victim blaming"”.
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Empathy Induction to Reduce Victim Blaming in Revenge Porn Cases
… findings suggest that certain characteristics of victims and perpetrators may make them more likely to be blamed. To this end, the current study examined how victim gender, having a history of infidelity, empathy instructions, and observer gender work together to place blame on victims and …
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Feminist qualitative study of victim blaming of sexually assaulted women in India
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<i>Vim Parat</i>: Patterns of Sexualized Violence, Victim-Blaming, and Sororophobia in Ovid
… corpus through the modern feminist concepts of victim-blaming (blaming victims of sexual abuse for their own abuse) and sororophobia (female figures participating in misogyny). It explores sexualized violence and rape in Ovid long-form, examines the discernible patterns that emerge and the …
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Perceptions of male rape victims: Examining rape myth acceptance and victim blaming attitudes among a sample of college students
… women comprise the majority of sexual assault victims. Emerging research suggests that although men are less likely than women to be sexually victimized, a sizeable minority of men experience sexual assault in their lifetimes and a growing body of literature has begun to consider societal …
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Increased rape victims scale attitudes after relational rejection: The roles of entitlement and shame
… rejection impacted participants’ endorsement of victim blaming beliefs toward sexual assault survivors. Participants were randomly assigned to read one of five vignettes, including a woman romantically rejecting a man, socially rejecting him, romantically accepting him, socially accepting him, or …
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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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RAPE PERCEPTION BASED ON RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION, GENDER, AND LENGTH OF RELATIONSHIP
<p>Rape victims face many difficulties after the traumatic event, one of these being inadequate social support. Victims frequently report apathetic, insensitive, or accusing reactions from support systems (Ahrens, 2006). Understanding how peers respond is essential for ensuring sufficient support …
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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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Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture
… but untrue beliefs about rape and rape victims; (b) slides of romance novel covers representative of heterosexual intimacy unrelated to rape; (c) slides of romance novel covers with the title only; or (d) non-romantic comparison covers from other genres. Participants were then asked to …
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“Pa’ tra’ ni pa’ coger impulso”: parental influences on the education journey of low-income Latino males who “made it” to a four-year university
… body of research that challenge deficit-based, victim-blaming conceptualizations of low-income Latino parents and their involvement in their children’s education.
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Defending women who kill
… - this is tightly linked with the concept of victim blaming. Other themes include deterrence as emphasised in sentencing, the notion of a turning point during an abusive spell, the rights of the children involved in abusive relationships, and considering motives for retaliation. The paper …
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Accounting for child sexual abuse : male discourses
… justifications of child sexual abuse are victim blaming, the belief that men are unable to control their sexual drive, the assertion of power, perceived rights over women, and doubting the evidence of girls and women. Illustrations of these discourses, which are present in both students' …
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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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Justice, Equality, and SlutWalk: The Rhetoric of Protesting Rape Culture
… key aspects of rape culture: slut-shaming and victim-blaming. SlutWalk protesters simultaneously advocate a sex-positive stance while lashing back at rape culture. This thesis examines SlutWalks as a form of modern protest that utilizes the Internet to create a membership of mostly young people …
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Justice, Equality, and SlutWalk: The Rhetoric of Protesting Rape Culture
… key aspects of rape culture: slut-shaming and victim-blaming. SlutWalk protesters simultaneously advocate a sex-positive stance while lashing back at rape culture. This thesis examines SlutWalks as a form of modern protest that utilizes the Internet to create a membership of mostly young people …
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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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The damselfish year
… to others. Other adjacent concerns here include victim blaming, violent family dynamics, ocean acidification and plastic refuse, and sex trafficking on porn websites. The collection also includes a series of loosely-structured sonnets centered on the Tarot, which is used to explore ideas of fate …
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The complexity of disadvantage : examining the effects of moral ecology on adolescent educational outcomes.
… inequality are often avoided due to perceived victim blaming, one's moral ecology—defined here as both moral worldviews and the social support systems that sustain them—shapes opportunities for success beyond demographic characteristics. This dissertation examines how adolescent moral ecology …
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Empathy, mental state recognition, and violent behaviour: the influence of situated context
… of archival data collated from a prison-based victim awareness programme (including a sub-set of violent offender narratives). Contrasting epistemological approaches were drawn on pragmatically at different stages, including: thematic analysis (critical realist perspective) and discursive …
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The Specter Of Gendered Violence: Tracing The Intertwined Legacies Of Colonialism And Sexism In Puerto Rican Literature
… by denouncing gendered violence, condemning victim blaming, and encouraging female creation. As a whole, my dissertation aims to shed light on an often-silenced issue: the culture of misogyny embedded in Puerto Rico’s canonical literature and how it bleeds into gendered violence.
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