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Rape Myths

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FEMINIST DEVELOPMENTS IN VIOLENCE AND ABUSE

Series Editors: Dr Hannah Bows, Durham University (UK) and Professor Nicole Westmarland, Durham University (UK)

Feminist Developments in Violence and Abuse provides a feminist forum for academic work that pushes forward existing knowledge around violence and abuse, informing policy and practice, with the overarching objective of contributing towards ending violence and abuse within our society. The series enables academics, practitioners, policymakers and professionals to continually build and explore their understanding of the dynamics, from the micro to the macro level, that are driving violence and abuse. The study of abuse and violence has a large scope for co-producing research, and this series is a home for research involving a broad range of stakeholders; particularly those working in grassroots domestic and sexual violence organisations, police, prosecutors, lawyers, campaign groups, housing and victim services. As violence and abuse research reaches across disciplinary boundaries, the series has an interdisciplinary scope with research impact at the heart.

Available Volumes:

• Victims’ Experiences of the Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Abuse: Beyond GlassWalls

  Emma Forbes

• Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse

  Nicola Sharp-Jeffs

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• ‘Rough Sex’ and the Criminal Law: Global Perspectives

  Hannah Bows and Jonathan Herring

• Not Your Usual Suspect: Older Offenders of Violence and Abuse

  Hannah Bows

• Gendered Justice? How Women’s Attempts to Cope With, Survive, or Escape Domestic Abuse Can Drive Them into Crime

  Jo Roberts

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Rape Myths: Understanding, Assessing, and Preventing

BY

SOFIA PERSSON

Leeds Beckett University, UK

and

KATIE DHINGRA

Leeds Beckett University, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2022

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This book is dedicated to all the women and girls who have been subjected to rape. We hear you; we see you; we believe you. Together we will build a society that does not justify, tolerate, or minimise men’s sexual violence against women.

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About the Authors

Sofia Persson, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her main research interests are blame attributions in rape cases and various forms of gender inequality. She is an Open Science advocate.

Katie Dhingra, PhD, is Reader/Associate Professor in Psychology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research largely focuses on the psychosocial mechanisms underlying suicide and non-suicidal self-injury. Additionally, she researches violence against women and children and psychological responses to trauma.

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