RT Article
T1 Who Are You to Me? Relational Distance to Victims and Perpetrators Affects Advising to Report Rape
JF Violence against women
VO 28
IS 3/4
SP 780
OP 800
A1 Puthillam, Arathy
A2 Parekh, Aneree
A2 Kapoor, Hansika
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1786543087
AB The victim’s decision to report a crime is generally dependent on the advice received from a confidant. The effects of a confidant’s relationship to victims and perpetrators on the advice given to report rape were investigated. Indian participants (N = 418) read one of the seven scenarios of acquaintance rape as a confidant; the scenarios depicted different relationships between the victim and perpetrator (family vs. friend vs. stranger). Confidants closer to victims were more likely to advise reporting, whereas confidants closer to the perpetrator were less likely to advise reporting. Rape myth acceptance and victim blaming negatively predicted reporting to agencies.
K1 Rape in India
K1 Reporting of rape to the police
K1 Sexual violence in India
K1 Victim blaming
K1 Social Distance
K1 sexual assault
K1 rape myth acceptance
K1 Acquaintance rape
DO 10.1177/10778012211005565