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Reaction Toward Rape as a Function of Rater Sex, Victim Sex, and Form of Injury

Raters' response toward victim and perpetrators in the context of rape is examined. More blame is attributed to a female than a male victim by all raters, particularly if the female victim is described only as being raped. Detailed description of different forms of injury resulting from the rape tends to act as a mediating factor in the amount of blame assigned to victims. Whereas the delineation of injury tends to decrease the amount of blame assigned to the female victim, this pattern is reversed for the male. Raters also claim a physically injured rape victim would require a substantially longer recuperation time than one whose injuries are psychological or unspecified.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504073
Date08 1900
CreatorsEe, Juliana Soh-Chiew
ContributorsAronson, Harriet, Burke, Angela J., Schneider, Lawrence J.
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 80 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Ee, Juliana Soh-Chiew, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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