Sexual Assault and the Justice Gap: A Question of Attitude

By J. Temkin, Barbara Krahé. 2008

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Rape myth acceptance: cognitive, affective and behavioural effects of beliefs that blame the victim and exonerate the perpetrator (2013, background): “18 relatively few cases that are reported, conviction rates have been declining (Kelly et al. 2005; Temkin and Krahé 2008; United Nations 2000).”
Complaints of rape and the criminal justice system: Fresh evidence on the attrition problem in England and Wales (2015, background): “Temkin and Krahé (2008) argue that the answer to high attrition lies in attitudes and stereotypes of the legal agents.”
Reacting to rape: Exploring mock jurors' assessments of complainant credibility. (2008, background): “…is stronger evidence of a correlation between gender and ‘ rape myth acceptance ’ (see, e.g. Hinck and Thomas 1999 ; Morry and Winkler 2001 ; Lonsway and Fitzgerald 1994 ; Anderson et al. 1997 ) but this is mediated by differential personal attitudes towards gender roles ( Temkin and Krahe 2008 ).”
Prospective lawyers’ rape stereotypes and schematic decision making about rape cases (2008, methodology): “Thus, in line with a broad range of previous studies (see Temkin & Krahé, 2008, Chapter 2), the present findings suggest that gender is a risk marker of stereotypic judgements about rape in that it indicates a higher probability for men to endorse rape myths.”
A review of the literature relating to rape victim blaming: An analysis of the impact of observer and victim characteristics on attribution of blame in rape cases (2014, unknown): “‘Rape myths’, commonly held beliefs about what a typical rape situation looks like which influence the decision-making process and guilt assessment of lay people as well as jurors have also been identified (Bohner et al., 2009; Temkin & Krahé, 2008; Ward, 1995).”
Policing ‘sexting’: Responsibilization, respectability and sexual subjectivity in child protection/crime prevention responses to teenagers’ digital sexual expression (2014, background): “What then are we to make of this focus and the campaign’s ‘respect yourself’ framework? While in and of itself the cultivation of self-respect in teenage girls is not a negative end goal, when self-respect is framed as the obligation for girls, rather than for boys, to abstain from digital sexual ex”
Of ‘Normal Sex’ and ‘Real Rape’: Exploring The Use of Socio-Sexual Scripts in (Mock) Jury Deliberation (2009, background): “Studies have indicated that jurors in rape cases may well be influenced in their determinations of guilt or innocence by a range of extra-legal stereotypes about ‘appropriate’ sociosexual behaviour (Feild and Bienen, 1980; Heilbrun, 1980; Burt and Albin, 1981; Tetreault, 1989; Burt, 1994; Lonsway an”