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Prevalence of Negative Attitudes Among Police Officers Toward Rape Victims
Adolescent and Pediatric Gynecology, 1995The objective of this study was to determine, by survey, the prevalence of negative attitudes toward rape victims among police officers at the Memphis Police Academy. A total of 510 police officers completed surveys that included negative statements about rape victims.
D. Muram, R. Hellman, B. Cassinello
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Gay Male Rape Victims: Law Enforcement, Social Attitudes and Barriers to Recognition
International Journal of Human Rights, 2009 © 2009 Taylor & Francis. This paper examines the experiences of gay male rape victims. It discusses findings from empirical studies of police attitudes along with an increasing number of studies that have examined the experiences of these victims.
Rumney, Philip, Philip N.S. Rumney
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Attitudes Toward Rape and Rape Victims
2014This chapter will discuss the reasons why rape victims often fail to report the crimes, common reactions of others to disclosures, and the relationship of these reactions to rape myth acceptance. Cultural, sub-cultural, disability and gender-related issues will be discussed. Theories of human psychology explaining listener resistance will be presented.
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The attitudes toward rape victims scale: Reliability and validity in a chinese context
Sex Roles, 1991Two studies were conducted to assess the cross-cultural applicability of Ward's Attitudes toward Rape Victims Scale (ARVS). In the first study, 202 Chinese college students took the ARVS, the Attitudes toward Women Scale, and the Traditionality-Modernity Factor Scale. Reliability and convergent validity were established for ARVS.
Hing-chu B. Lee, Fanny M. Cheung
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Attitudes Toward Wife Rape: Effects of Social Background and Victim Status
Violence and Victims, 2002The current literature on wife rape is minimal compared to the published research in areas such as wife battering or date rape, and most of the existent work on attitudes toward wife rape is dated and/or focuses on limited samples (i.e., college populations).
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Psychopathic traits predict harsh attitudes toward rape victims among undergraduates
Personality and Individual Differences, 2017Abstract Sexual aggression is pervasive in American society and affects deleteriously the lives of men and women. Two potential predictors sexual assault are psychopathic personality (psychopathy) traits and rape myth acceptance (RMA), although there is a paucity of research on the relation between RMA and psychopathic traits.
Ashley L. Watts +3 more
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Oppression Through Acceptance?
Violence Against Women, 2009Feminist theories of rape motivation are based on research suggesting a relationship between dominance and sexual aggression. However, the relationship between dominance and rape myth acceptance (RMA), a predictor of rape proclivity and sexual aggression and a key component in feminist theory, is understudied.
Jericho M, Hockett +4 more
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Public Attitude Towards Rape Crime and the Treatment of Its Victims in Delhi City
2020Abstract This chapter sets out to explore whether the lineage of social change and social development has led to any change in public attitudes towards female rape victims. People campaigned for the amendments in the rape laws and raised their voices to support concern for the security and dignity of women but overlooked the reality ...
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The Attitudes Toward Rape Victims Scale: Construction, Validation, and Cross-Cultural Applicability
Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1988The paper describes the construction of a 25-item Attitudes toward Rape Victims Scale (ARVS) designed to assess favorable and unfavorable attitudes with particular emphasis on victim blame, credibility, deservingness, denigration, and trivialization.
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Violence Against Women, 2018
Research has shown that judgments of a rape victim could be influenced by exposure to negative social reactions: students indicated less willingness to provide sympathy and support to a hypothetical rape victim when they learned she had been blamed and stigmatized.
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Research has shown that judgments of a rape victim could be influenced by exposure to negative social reactions: students indicated less willingness to provide sympathy and support to a hypothetical rape victim when they learned she had been blamed and stigmatized.
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