The illusion of choice
Organizational dependency and the neutralization of university sexual assault complaints
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6090784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicole Bedera (0000-0003-0411-8586, Sociology University of Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 208-229 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lapo.12194 |
| OpenAlex | W4285677402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 62 |
In response to new regulations, universities have created multiple options for managing sexual misconduct complaints. These options are described as maximizing survivors' autonomy through feminist paradigms of choice. This study uses data from ethnographic observation and 76 interviews with survivors, perpetrators, and administrators to examine whether providing options gave survivors control over their complaints. The findings indicate that survivors found the complicated and vague sexual misconduct policies overwhelming and confusing. As a result, they became dependent on university actors in decision‐making, giving the university more control over survivors' complaints as institutional actors guided survivors to options that required minimal university action
Autonomy · Criminology · Ethnography · Medical emergency · Misconduct · Poison control · Political science · Sexual assault · Sexual misconduct · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology
Policy whiplash
Learning from survivors
The sound of silence
What's Hard Is Yet to Come
Students’ Perceptions of Guilt, Responsibility, and Just Punishment When Accounts of Campus Sexual Assault Conflict
Title IX and Sexual Violence in Higher Education
Navigating the Risks of Party Rape in Historically White Greek Life at an Elite College
Denial and Neutralization of Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education
I Can Protect His Future, but She Can’t Be Helped
How do institutional gender regimes affect formal reporting processes for sexual harassment? A qualitative study of UK higher education
Exploring Implementation of Gender-Based Violence Policies in English Higher Education
Peopling Organizations
Working Law
Social Reactions to Disclosure of Sexual Victimization and Adjustment Among Survivors of Sexual Assault
Compelled disclosure of college sexual assault.
Social reactions to disclosure of interpersonal violence and psychopathology
The psychological impact of rape victims.
Dangerous Safe Havens
Disclosure and Service Use on a College Campus After an Unwanted Sexual Experience
Community services for rape survivors
Does a report = support? A qualitative analysis of college sexual assault survivors’ Title IX Office knowledge, perceptions, and experiences
The Selective Shield of Due Process
Barriers to Reporting Sexual Assault for Women and Men
Campus Sexual Misconduct
An Exploration of Sexual Victimization and Academic Performance Among College Women
Sex-Based Harassment and Symbolic Compliance
Rape Survivors' Experiences With the Legal and Medical Systems
Suddenly Everyone’s an Expert in Our Field”
I Fear I’m a Checkbox”
Everybody Makes Choices”
Injustice Frames, Legality, and the Everyday Construction of Sexual Harassment
Claiming “Victim” to Harassment Law
Resisting the Enforcement of Sexual Harassment Law
When “Best Practices” Win, Employees Lose
The Paradox of Complaining
Symbolic Compliance and Student Concerns
Healing or Hurtful
It Happens to Girls All the Time”
Homogeneity in community‐based rape prevention programs
The Constraints of Fear and Neutrality in Title IX Administrators’ Responses to Sexual Violence
Legal Consciousness and Responses to Sexual Harassment
The Iron Cage Revisited
Risking Relationships
The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes
The Sociology of Gaslighting
Situating Legal Consciousness
After Legal Consciousness
A Theory of Racialized Organizations
Idle Rights
The Rape Prone Culture of Academic Contexts
Normalizing Sexual Violence
Microaggressions and the Enduring Mental Health Disparity
Victims in the Shadow of the Law
Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures
The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation
How do sexual harassment policies shape gender beliefs? An exploration of the moderating effects of norm adherence and gender
Accountability as an Inhabited Institution
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |