Rape Culture and Victim Blaming on the UNCP Campus

UNCP Author/Contributor (non-UNCP co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Haley Bean (Creator)

Institution

The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP )

Web Site: http://www.uncp.edu/academics/library

Advisor

Dr. Summer Stanley

Abstract: The project aimed to first explore the concepts of rape culture and victim blaming through their history, as well as their current representation in society. Also, the literature review featured sections on the scope of the problem, interventions attempted, and other information pertinent to understand rape culture. The research for this project was conducted at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in various locations, and involved a single researcher surveying students. The results of the research were broken into different sections depending on which part of the survey was being discussed. The most important section was the participants’ responses to eight scenarios that depicted a person who was raped, and then participants had to rate whether or not the victim had no influence, mild influence, moderate influence, or strong influence on their rape. Although when participants were assigned a victim blaming score the results were positive and indicated low levels of victim blaming, when each individual scenario was analyzed participants tended to blame certain victims more than others based off of stereotypes and common misconceptions associated with rape.

Rape Culture and Victim Blaming on the UNCP Campus
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Publication

Honors Project

Esther G. Maynor Honors College

Language: English

Date: 2015

Keywords

Rape, Rape Culture, Rape Victims, Sexual Violence, Victim Blaming, College Students, UNC Pembroke

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