Blaming the victim

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'''Denial of the victim''' describes the attempt to escape responsibility by asserting that the perpetrator is the "real victim" who has suffered an injustice, usually by claiming the actual victim responsible. Classically this is the rapist claiming his victim was "asking for it" by, for example, wearing a short skirt. This is a specific instance of [[neutralization]]
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'''Denial of the victim''' describes the attempt to escape responsibility by asserting that the perpetrator is the "real victim" who has suffered an injustice, usually by claiming the actual victim responsible. Classically this is the rapist claiming his victim was "asking for it" by, for example, wearing a short skirt. This is a specific instance of [[neutralization]].
  
 
==Examples==
 
==Examples==

Revision as of 18:05, 7 April 2010

Denial of the victim describes the attempt to escape responsibility by asserting that the perpetrator is the "real victim" who has suffered an injustice, usually by claiming the actual victim responsible. Classically this is the rapist claiming his victim was "asking for it" by, for example, wearing a short skirt. This is a specific instance of neutralization.

Examples

  • Representatives of the Papacy have lashed out at The New York Times for its investigative journalism of the cover-up of pedophile priests. Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa even compared the anger directed at the Vatican in the pedophilia scandal to "the most shameful aspects of anti-Semitism." News Report

Sources

  • Stanley Cohen. 2001. States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering. Cambridge: Polity Press. Pp. 96-97.
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