Judging Victims : : Why we Stigmatize Survivors, and How They Reclaim Respect / / Jennifer L. Dunn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Dunn, Jennifer L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Social Problems, Social Constructions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)

“Why didn’t she resist?” “Why is he telling us only now?” “Why can’t she move on?” Unpacking the questions that cast victims as deviants, Jennifer Dunn critically examines why we stigmatize survivors of rape, battering, incest, and clergy abuse—and how they reclaim their identities. Dunn explores the shifting perceptions over time of victims as blameworthy, blameless, pathetic, or heroic figures. She also links those images to their real-world consequences, demonstrating that they dominate the ways in which people think about intimate violence and individual responsibility. Her analysis cuts to the core of fundamental issues at the center of debates about crime and deviance, victimization, and social problems.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Vocabularies of Victimization: Sympathy, Agency, and Identity -- 2 Survivor Movements Then and Now -- 3 The Antirape Movement and Blameworthy Victims -- 4 The Battered Women’s Movement and Blameless Victims -- 5 “Backlash” and Pathetic Victims -- 6 Survivors of Clergy Abuse and Admirable Victims -- 7 The Vanguard of Victimology: Survivors, Identity Work, and Cultural Change -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book