RT Article
T1 The “Third-Victimization”: The Cybervictimization of Sexual Assault Survivors and Their Families
JF Journal of contemporary criminal justice
VO 37
IS 3
SP 356
OP 378
A1 Clevenger, Shelly
A2 Navarro, Jordana
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1762943441
AB Sexual assault has a devastating effect on survivors as well as their family and friends (i.e., secondary survivors). Research shows that survivors’ abilities to cope in the aftermath of sexual trauma are particularly difficult in the “internet” age. This struggle stems from the abilities of perpetrators to use cyberspace to abuse, harass, and threaten survivors vis-à-vis various cybercrimes: cyberstalking, cybersexual abuse, and cyberfraud. Indeed, a survivor in this study referred to the cybervictimizations as the “third-victimization” because it followed the sexual assault (first) and the “revictimization” experienced during the pursuit of justice (second). This article presents the results of semistructured interviews about the third-victimization of 48 female survivors and 89 secondary survivors, the family of the survivor. These results show that all primary and most secondary survivors (91%) experienced at least one third-victimization, with a majority experiencing multiple forms.
K1 cybersexual abuse
K1 cyber intimate partner abuse
K1 Cyberfraud
K1 cyber domestic abuse
K1 Cybercrime
DO 10.1177/10439862211001616