Why do victims sometimes receive sympathy for their suffering and at other times scorn and blame? Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/4984060658 In a ...

One phrase – or some variant of it – that seems to crop up in discussions of sexual assault more frequently than almost all others is “blaming the victim” (though I imagine “rape culture” and ...

A North East expert is leading new training to address victim-blaming language in police investigations. Dr Patricia Canning Pask, assistant professor at Northumbria University and an applied linguist ...

PUTTING blame on the victim of a crime, such as physical or sexual assault, is a sordid practice as old as history itself. Rape victims are castigated for the egregious violation they suffered for ...