Victim Blaming in Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Adults: Variations on the Severity Effect

Adams-Price, Carolyn E.; Dalton, William T.; Sumrall, Roxana

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“…Women, however, gave harsher sentences to perpetrators than men did (George & Martínez, 2002). Older adults (aged 60 to 84) also blamed the victim more in various instances of crime (a fire, a car accident, theft, being hit by a car), regardless of the outcome of the crime (either mild or severe) or the degree of responsibility attributed to the victim (either very irresponsible or not very irresponsible) than did 18-34 year old younger adults and 35-59 year old middle-aged adults (Adams-Price, Dalton, & Sumrall, 2004).…”

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“…In summary, past research has studied how the attribution of victim blame is influenced by research participant characteristics, perpetrator characteristics, and victim characteristics, but almost no research has focused on blame attribution across different types of crimes and how the perceived severity of the crime alters the amount of blame attributed to both the victim and the perpetrator. The limited research on crime type has found that participants blame victims in less severe crimes more (Adams-Price et al, 2004;Brems & Wagner, 1994), but the only crime considered has been theft, a crime of property, not of person (like rape).…”

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“…Greater blame and harsher sentences may be due to the fact that victims of more severe crimes are more likely to suffer worse side effects and elicit more sympathy from participants. Adams-Price et al (2004), for example, found that older participants blamed victims more the less severe the outcome was. Many people regard murder as much more serious than rape because murder results in death.…”

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“…Past research has included participants of greater demographic diversity. The present study consisted mostly of traditional-age, female, Caucasian undergraduate students, whom the literature has found tend to attribute the least amount of blame to victims (Adams-Price et al, 2004;Grubb & Harrower, 2009;Jimenez & Abreu, 2003;Lee et al, 2005;Mitchell et al, 2009;Sheldon-Keller et al, 1994;Smith & Frieze, 2003;White & Robinson-Kurpius, 1999). In addition, although the Latin Square counterbalancing addressed order effects in the design, the great similarity among the three vignettes (altered only by crime type and perpetrator proximity) may have explained the similar ratings for rape and murder.…”

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The Relation Between Family Functioning, Ego Identity, and Self-Esteem in Young Adults

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2010

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We examined the potential influence of family characteristics on ego identity and self-esteem among emerging adults. College students (N = 210, M = 19.52 years, 65% women) completed measures of self-esteem, ego-identity, and family functioning (General Family Functioning, Communication, Roles, Affective Responsiveness, Affective Involvement, and Behavior Control). In a multiple regression analysis, self-esteem was predicted by ego identity, general family functioning, and gender. Similarly, when ego-identity was the criterion variable, it was predicted by self-esteem, general family functioning, and gender. We further examined the nature of these relations using a path model. Healthy family functioning predicted stronger ego identity which in turn was predictive of higher self-esteem. In addition, being male was significantly related to higher self-esteem whereas being female was related to higher ego identity.

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“…Norris et al (2013) contend that focussing on the micro-system can also reinforce the view that older people are needy and dependent, and thus could provide some veracity to the notion that care-giving of older people is burdensome. This concern echoes that of Adams-Price, Dalton and Sumrall (2004) and Brandl and Raymond (2012) who consider the possibility that understanding elder abuse primarily as an issue born from dependency, may result in older people being viewed as responsible (at least in part)…”

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A cog in the wheel or an agent of change: Knowledge use and practice with older people who are abused in Aotearoa/New Zealand

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Across the past three decades a growing national and international concern about elder abuse is evident in policy, research and social and health care practice. There is currently a considerable body of literature on prevalence, predictors and risk factors as well as debates about definitions, conceptualisations and appropriate legal, policy and practice responses. There is more limited research on how the conceptualisations of ageing and elder abuse shape professional practice. Knowledge use and social work practice in elder abuse in the context of Aotearoa/New Zealand is the focus of this thesis.This thesis presents a qualitative exploratory study of elder abuse practice as reported by twenty social workers engaged in frontline elder abuse work throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. The purposive sample of social workers practised in a variety of settings and were situated in different geographic locations across the country. The primary focus of this study is to explore how elder abuse is understood, how cases of In individual semi-structured interviews, participants were asked to describe their understandings of elder abuse, to explore the knowledge they use to inform these understandings, and to give details about what actions they take when encountering situations of abuse.An interpretative, social constructionist approach to this research was taken. All twenty accounts of practice were analysed thematically. This provided a means by which the processes of, and influences on, meaning, knowledge use and response-making could be scrutinised, and an understanding of elder abuse practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand could be discerned.The findings indicate that the term 'elder abuse' is universally recognised and articulated in practice, but when explored in depth, understandings about what constitutes elder abuse varied, were dependent on the knowledge individual social ii | P a g e workers brought to their practice, and on the context in which the practice occurred. This knowledge was not always explicitly used and consequently was often left unscrutinised. The use of tacit knowledge was seen to facilitate the establishment of patterns of practice that have become customary and are left unchallenged.The influence of the context on what could or could not be done to respond to elder abuse was acknowledged by many of these social workers. Beyond the immediate resource constraints that were recognised as limiting their options to address abuse, the significance of the socio-economic-historic-cultural-political context and how this informed and shaped social work practice (and the experiences of older people) were not readily identified by most. When these factors were noted, they were largely considered to be insurmountable.The findings from this study highlight that a narrow approach is taken by most of the social workers in this study when working with older people who are abused. There is little demonstrated understanding the socio/political context in which the abuse occurs, and the systemic issues that may co...

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Current awareness in geriatric psychiatry

2005

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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In order to keep subscribers up‐to‐date with the latest developments in their field, John Wiley & Sons are providing a current awareness service in each issue of the journal. The bibliography contains newly published material in the field of geriatric psychiatry. Each bibliography is divided into 9 sections: 1 Books, Reviews & Symposia; 2 General; 3 Assessment; 4 Epidemiology; 5 Therapy; 6 Care; 7 Dementia; 8 Depression; 9 Psychology. Within each section, articles are listed in alphabetical order with respect to author. If, in the preceding period, no publications are located relevant to any one of these headings, that section will be omitted

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Victim Blaming in Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Adults: Variations on the Severity Effect

Cited by 15 publications

References 22 publications

The Relation Between Family Functioning, Ego Identity, and Self-Esteem in Young Adults

The Relation Between Family Functioning, Ego Identity, and Self-Esteem in Young Adults

A cog in the wheel or an agent of change: Knowledge use and practice with older people who are abused in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Current awareness in geriatric psychiatry

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