Previous research has examined how people attribute blame to individuals in crime scenarios and the effects of different crimes on victims. This study examined the effects of Crime Type (i.e. rape and violent non-sexual assault), Perpetrator Age, and Perpetrator-Victim Relationship on observers\u27 feelings of disgust, attributions of responsibility, and their recommended sentence length. University of Dayton psychology undergraduates read a crime scenario that varied according to the above factors and answered questions assessing their level of disgust, recommended sentence length, willingness to be associated with the perpetrator, belief in a just world (BJW), rape myth acceptance (RMA), and their attributions of responsibility for the pe...
AbstractBoth real-life events and research show that rape victims are sometimes blamed for their vic...
College students (n=240), half of whom were women, completed a series of measures designed to assess...
Research exploring the factors that shape public attitudes towards individuals who commit sexual off...
Public reactions to rape affect victims in a variety of ways and have implications for psychological...
This thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and st...
Previous research has examined negative public perceptions and attitudes towards sex offenders and, ...
Rape is a crime characterized by low reporting and conviction rates. Many victims who do report, dro...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999This relationships among dispositional variables, sit...
In recent years rape has emerged as an area of public concern with particular focus being on the neg...
The purpose of this study was to examine different perceptions and attributions of male and female v...
Vita.This study was an attempt to focus on factors which affect attitudes toward rape victims, parti...
In recent years, numerous studies have assessed social perceptions of rape in various subject popula...
Past research has shown that perceptions, either negative or positive, of the legal system will infl...
Though rape can occur in a variety of relationships, its effects are sometimes minimized depending u...
Perceptions of sexual assault are heavily dependent on commonly held, but often false, beliefs. For ...
AbstractBoth real-life events and research show that rape victims are sometimes blamed for their vic...
College students (n=240), half of whom were women, completed a series of measures designed to assess...
Research exploring the factors that shape public attitudes towards individuals who commit sexual off...
Public reactions to rape affect victims in a variety of ways and have implications for psychological...
This thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and st...
Previous research has examined negative public perceptions and attitudes towards sex offenders and, ...
Rape is a crime characterized by low reporting and conviction rates. Many victims who do report, dro...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999This relationships among dispositional variables, sit...
In recent years rape has emerged as an area of public concern with particular focus being on the neg...
The purpose of this study was to examine different perceptions and attributions of male and female v...
Vita.This study was an attempt to focus on factors which affect attitudes toward rape victims, parti...
In recent years, numerous studies have assessed social perceptions of rape in various subject popula...
Past research has shown that perceptions, either negative or positive, of the legal system will infl...
Though rape can occur in a variety of relationships, its effects are sometimes minimized depending u...
Perceptions of sexual assault are heavily dependent on commonly held, but often false, beliefs. For ...
AbstractBoth real-life events and research show that rape victims are sometimes blamed for their vic...
College students (n=240), half of whom were women, completed a series of measures designed to assess...
Research exploring the factors that shape public attitudes towards individuals who commit sexual off...