Perpetrator coercion, victim resistance and respondent gender
Their impact on blame attributions in a hypothetical child sexual abuse case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12936657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Rogers (0000-0001-9176-4126, University of Lancashire, corresponding author), Michelle Davies (University of Lancashire), Lisa Cottam (University of Lancashire) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 25-35 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Aggression Conflict and Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-6599 • E-ISSN: 2042-8715 |
| Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5042/jacpr.2010.0334 |
| OpenAlex | W1994555910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
This study investigates the impact that perpetrator coercion type, victim resistance type and respondent gender have on attributions of blame in a hypothetical child sexual abuse case. A total of 366 respondents read a hypothetical scenario describing the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl by a 39-year-old man, before completing 21 attribution items relating to victim blame, perpetrator blame, the blaming of the victim's (non-offending) parents, and assault severity. Overall, men judged the assault more serious when the perpetrator used physical force as opposed to verbal threat or misrepresented play as a coercive act. Men also deemed the victim's non-offending parents more culpable when the victim offered no resistance, rather than physical or verbal resistance. Women judged the assault equally severe regardless of coercion type, although they did rate the victim's family more culpable when the victim offered verbal rather than physical resistance. Implications and ideas for future work are discussed
Attribution · Blame · Coercion (linguistics · Developmental psychology · Injury prevention · Intimidation · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Respondent · Sexual abuse · Sexual assault · Sexual coercion · Child Abuse and Trauma · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology
The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse
The psychological impact of rape victims.
Judgements about victims and attackers in depicted rapes
The impact of child sexual abuse on health
Stress, appraisal, and coping in child sexual abuse
Impact of child sexual abuse
A Discursive Investigation into Victim Responsibility in Rape
Attributions in a Hypothetical Child Sexual Abuse Case
The Efficacy of Women's Resistance Strategies in Rape Situations
The role of observer attitudes in judgments of blame in cases of wife assault
The Effectiveness of the Vignette Methodology
Searching for Meaning in Misfortune
Child molesting
Defensive attribution
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |