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The effects of victim age, perceiver gender, and parental status on perceptions of victim culpability when girls or women are sexually abused
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posted on 2018-05-01, 00:00 authored by Bianca KlettkeBianca Klettke, David MellorDavid MellorThis study investigated perceptions of victim culpability in sexual assaults against girls and women according to victim age, perceiver gender, and perceiver parental status. Overall, 420 jury-eligible participants completed an online survey recording their attributions of guilt, responsibility, and blame toward 10-, 15-, and 20-year-old girls and women in relation to sexual assault. Attributions of culpability were affected by whether the victim physically or verbally resisted the abuse, wore sexually revealing clothes, or was described as having acted promiscuously. Fifteen-year-old victims were perceived as more culpable for the abuse than 10-year-old victims. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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Violence against womenVolume
24Issue
6Pagination
650 - 667Publisher
SAGE PublicationsLocation
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1552-8448Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
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