Effects of perpetrator characteristics and participants belief in a just world on blame attribution of rape victims

Alfredsson, Helen,1975Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Psykologiska institutionen,Department of Psychology (author)

Rape victims are often the subject of secondary victimization when being blamed for their assaults. In an experiment using a community sample (N=161), we investigated the effect of perpetrator characteristics; age and previous conviction, participants gender and belief in a just world on blame attributions using a vignette methodology. Results show that female participants attributed most victim blame when the perpetrator had a previous conviction, although male participants attributed most victim blame when the perpetrator had no such history. It seems as features of the perpetrator can influence allocation of victim blame and that gender of the observer also matters.

Strömwall, Leif,1967Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Psykologiska institutionen,Department of Psychology(Swepub:gu)xstlei (author)
Landström, Sara,1980Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Psykologiska institutionen,Department of Psychology(Swepub:gu)xlansa (author)
Göteborgs universitetPsykologiska institutionen (creator_code:org_t)

In:the 21th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), 2010, Miami.

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