Interviewer: ‘Are women and girls ever responsible for the domestic violence they encounter?’ Student: ‘No, well, unless they did something really, really bad …’

Lee, Deborah; Allwood, Rachel; Weinstein, Mark; Sullivan, Kerry

doi:10.1080/09589236.2015.1070711

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“…Participants with conservative beliefs about gender may have viewed the behavior of the victim (arriving home late without calling, pointing in her partner's face, commenting that he was ‘acting like a child’) as particularly unacceptable and/or the perpetrator's violent response as more understandable. Past studies have shown that, if violence is seen as justifiable in a person's mind, they may view the perpetrator as less exclusively to blame (Koepke et al., 2014; Lee et al., 2016; Witte et al., 2006).…”

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“…as particularly unacceptable and/or the perpetrator's violent response as more understandable. Past studies have shown that, if violence is seen as justifiable in a person's mind, they may view the perpetrator as less exclusively to blame (Koepke et al, 2014;Lee et al, 2016;Witte et al, 2006).…”

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“…Men may be viewed as less blameworthy and their IPV more acceptable when their partner engages in certain behaviors (e.g., becomes confrontational or cheats; Gracia & Lila, 2015; Rhatigan & Nathanson, 2010) or when violence is less severe (Martín‐Fernández et al., 2018). Female victims may be seen as partly to blame for their victimization if they somehow “provoke” their partner or fail to leave a previously violent partner (Lee et al., 2016; Witte et al., 2006; Worden & Carlson, 2005). A quarter of the participants in Worden and Carlson's (2005) study believed that some women want to be abused.…”

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Alcohol, gender, and violence: Factors influencing blame for partner aggression

Ross

Davis

2022

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Alcohol use has been associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) and reduced perpetrator blameworthiness, but this finding is not universal. Researchers examining alcohol and IPV-related blame often utilize vignettes depicting perpetrators who are sober and compare this to perpetrators depicted as more or less intoxicated. In this study, participants read one of three vignettes depicting male-to-female physical IPV. We compared participants' blame attributions across three conditions: perpetrator sober, perpetrator intoxicated-infrequent drinker, and perpetrator intoxicated-frequent drinker. Alcohol did not mitigate perpetrator blameworthiness for the assault; however, only the intoxicated-frequent drinker was rated as more blameworthy for his violence than the sober perpetrator. Participants also reported their own IPV perpetration, drinking behaviors, and gender role beliefs. Traditional gender role beliefs and a history of IPV perpetration were associated with shifting some of the blame onto the victim, and this was true for both men and women, especially when the perpetrator was described as a frequent drinker.Researchers should consider whether their alcohol vignettes might depict a behavior as reflecting the situation or the drinker's character, as this may impact their results. Furthermore, different observer characteristics may differentially predict blame attribution.

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confidence: 99%