Rape myths
Southern African Social Work Students’ Acceptance of Rape Myths: Results from an Exploratory Study
... More specifically related to the unique African contexts being studied, the participant’s country of origin was also related to differential attitudes. Participants from Zimbabwe had the highest mean IRMA score, ...
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Male Rape Myths: Understanding and Explaining Social Attitudes Surrounding Male Rape
... male rape myths/cultural myths and stereotypes identified in various ...male rape and male rape myths proliferate in societies (Hodge & Canter, 1998), which are exacerbated ...
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"And always keep a-hold of nurse, for fear of finding something worse": Challenging rape myths in the courtroom
... on myths and stereotypes. Those covered relate to the stranger rape myth, the impact of trauma on demeanor when giving evidence, late reporting, the absence of force or the threat of force, lack of ...
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Rape myths as a challenge to objective policing: exploring attitudinal antecedents of rape myth acceptance and police officers' judgements of rape scenarios
... • Despite several reviews (most recently, Dame Elish Angiolini, 2015), as well as changes in UK practice rape myth acceptance (RMA), varying levels of victim blame are still present [r] ...
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Myths and legends: the reality of rape offences reported to a UK police force
... stranger rape cases is similar (amalgamating their stranger and ‘known for less than 24 hours’ ...stranger rape in their UK samples of ...of rape cases with victims aged 18 to 29 were perpe- trated ...
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Increasing Sexual Assault Survivors' Help Seeking Via Advertised Messages
... It is not surprising that many women experience secondary victimization following disclosure to the medical and legal profession, given that medical and police staff, similar to members of the clergy, have been found to ...
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The Potential of Sexual Consent Interventions on College Campuses: A Literature Review on the Barriers to Establishing Affirmative Sexual Consent
... of rape myths, increased empathy for the victim, increased sexual assault awareness, decreased risky dating behavior, and increased bystander behavior (Bradley, Yeater, & O’Donohue, 2009; Foubert, ...
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CREATING A SPIRAL OF SILENCE? PRINT MEDIA REPORTAGE AND AUDIENCE PERCEPTION OF RAPE IN NIGERIA
... of rape cases and audience reactions and points to the need for further research especially for ...of rape cases unlike other crimes encompasses stereotypical views of the roles of women and their ...of ...
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Full Issue (Volume 4, Issue 1)
... of rape myths and stronger rape supportive attitudes, as compared to men who rejected the notion of token resistance (Garcia, 1998; Krahé, Scheinberger- Olwig, & Kolpin, ...2000). Rape ...
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Rape: Factors causing and the effects of rape in Kenya
... that rape myths are more rampant within the church forum, where women who are raped are seen as those who have perverted from the norm, or God protects us if we are living ...(2010). Rape itself is ...
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Attitude and Myths Towards Rape among Medical Students in Rajkot, India
... society. Rape myths encompass a set of (false) beliefs about rape that places the blame on the victim and not the ...on rape myths among the medical ...Illinois Rape Myth ...
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Perception about women and attitude towards a rape victim – a cross sectional study
... of rape myth acceptance and negative attitude towards rape ...victims. Rape myths are salient beliefs and they exert negative influence on attitudes at both individual level and ...the ...
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The Effect of Male Incarceration on Rape Myth Acceptance: Application of Propensity Score Matching Technique
... towards rape and rape victims (Debowska, Boduszek, Dhingra, Kola, & Meller-Prunska, in ...toward rape have also been found to vary by gender, with men more likely to support rape ...
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ARE MYTHS AND LEGENDS USED AS RESOURCES IN TOURISM COMMUNICATION? A WORDLE RESPONSE TO THE CASE OF ENCHANTED MOORISH AT SILVES CITY
... group, myths as storytelling are a discursive output of our society and they can be a fruitful resource of themes under which one can develop meaningful ...
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Power and limitations of formal methods for software fabrication: Thirty years later
... many myths that have taken hold in the formative process, where students manifest a fear of taking mathematics courses whose content is higher than that in other courses [4, ...these myths may or may not be ...
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Myths Related to Dental Decay and Tobacco Consumption: Debunked
... It is a traditional story usually concerning some being, an event with or without a determinable basis, facts, or explanation. The stories are passed on from one genera- tion to the next. Why, when, and how myths ...
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Overview of the worldwide best practices for rape prevention and for assisting women victims of rape
... Coordination emerges as a key component of good practices in policy responses addressing rape. At the local level, the best coordinated community responses have as their main objective the provision of efficient, ...
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Myths of complexity
... The previous sections help us understand why the Greek term for site, place or space khora that is introduced by Plato in the Timaeus as a third kind – distinct from being and becoming – is problematic for us to conceive ...
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Just World
... situations but with a different context. I placed Abel’s rape as a central scene in the novel, as it is climactic, but ripples out to affect all other scenes as others’ opinions of her begin to change. The male ...
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Geohazards and myths: ancient memories of rapid coastal change in the Asia-Pacific region and their value to future adaptation
... It seems unlikely that a single such event would have produced such lasting effects unless it was superimposed on a period of prolonged sea-level rise, such as occurred around the coast of India during the early ...
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