Links and Resources

General – research and statistics

The Havens

• “Wake Up To Rape” research summary report

The London Student Survey

Cello MRUK research on behalf of the Scottish Government, February 2010 (1,040 Scots surveyed) – publication pending

Scottish Government Domestic Abuse 2008/09

• Domestic Abuse Post Campaign Evaluation Report summary

Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, 2006

• Review of the Investigation and Prosecution of Sexual Offences in Scotland

TNS System Three survey (February 2008)

• TNS System Three survey of 986 Scots for the Scottish Executive
• Extract from the TNS survey relating to attitudes to rape

Rape Crisis Scotland, December 2007

• This Is Not An Invitation To Rape Me testing report

Amnesty International

• Amnesty International Report on attitudes to sexual assault in the UK (2005)

Zero Tolerance

• Zero Tolerance research on Young Peoples' Attitudes towards Sex, Violence and Relationships (1998)

Scottish Parliament Bill

• Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill

Scottish Government

• Recorded Crime in Scotland 2008-09
• Criminal proceedings in Scottish Courts 2008-09
• Impact of Aspects of the Law of Evidence in Sexual Offence Trials: An Evaluation Study

The Independent

• Myths and outdated attitudes

The Scotsman

• Conviction rates in the Scottish courts

Home Office Research Study 276

• Domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking: Findings from the British Crime Survey, 2004. Walby, Sylvia, and Allen, Jonathan

Women-blaming attitudes

BBC

• Women say some rape victims should take the blame
• Rape victims respond to survey on blame for rape

Scotsman

• Victim waives anonymity to confront twisted belief that ‘rape is justified’

The Guardian

• Blame the rapist, not the victim
• There is no excuse
• Rape: the sinister blame game
• Rape, blame & the tourism game

The Observer

• In rape cases “no” means “no” to everyone except the British public

Jezebel (blog discussion)

• Women, young people, blame women for sexual assault

Telegraph

• More than half of women think rape victims should take responsibility

Daily Mail

• Rape – fault of women say 50% of women

New Statesman

• Rape victims sometimes to blame, say women

Londonist

• Survey shows rape victims still considered to blame

Victimized over the AOC (Blog)

• Rape myths in Britain are alive and well

Feministing (Blog)

• Study shows victim blaming is still a trend among women

NY Daily News

• Many women think rape victims partly to blame says new survey

The Mirror

• Our attitudes to this serious offence is criminal

Winnipeg Free Press

• Women blamed for being victims

Liberal Conspiracy (Blog)

• Shocking attitudes towards rape

The Psychologist

• The print media and rape

The Times

• Women still held to blame for rape
• Rape myths: why we still believe women ask for it
• Rape conviction rate can improve if we tackle culture of scepticism

New Statesman

• Rape myths past and present

Dress

New Statesman

• Uncovered meat and short skirts

Daily Mail

• Skinny jeans (1)
• I was drunk, wearing a short skirt & agreed to go back to his house

Sydney Morning Herald

• Skinny jeans (2)

Shakesville

• Skinny jeans (blog discussion)

Washington City Paper

• On short skirts (blog discussion)

Mexico Reporter

• Mini skirts banned to stop provoking rape in Mexico

Brisbane Times

• Man blamed rape of 14-year-old on her wearing short skirts

Expressindia.com

• Bombay University says mini skirt ban helps stop rape

www.iol.co.za

• “Rape is a suitable punishment for mini skirts”

Sonoma State Star

• Short skirts, easy targets: the misconceptions that just keep on giving

Bristol Herald Courier

• Blame the victim I : religious leaflet claims “ungodly” dressed women provoke rape

Change.org

• Blame the victim II

Scotsman

• Anger as lawyer cites dress of sex victim, 15

The Sun

• Rape: Did we ask for it?

Coventry Telegraph

• Victims who think they are to blame

An examination of date rape, victim dress and perceiver variables within the context of attribution theory. Workman, Jane E. and Freeburg, Elizabeth W. Sex Roles, Vol. 41, No. 3/4, 1999

Cassidy, Linda

• The influence of victim’s attire on adolescents’ judgements of date rape

The Telegraph

• Italy overturns tight jeans rape ruling

The Independent

• Tight jeans ruling reversed

The Guardian

• Forsake lipstick to avoid rape

Drink

The effect of victim’s substance use and relationship closeness on mock jurors’ judgements in an acquaintance rape case. Wenger, Ashley A. and Bornstein, Brian H. Sex Roles [2006] 54: 547-555

ESRC Society Today

• From Sobriety to Stupefaction: Intoxication & Jury Decision-Making in Rape Trials. Finch, E. & V.E. Munro

Innovations Report

• Juries reluctant to convict in rape cases in which alcohol involved

Business Times Online

• Juries are 'unsympathetic' to women who claim rape after drunken binge

The Guardian

• Drunk men who demand sex from partners should be ‘treated as rapists’
• Rape victims told alcohol consumption may cost them compensation
• Blaming the victim

The Calgary Herald

• Rape victims who were drunk perceived as more responsible: study

Scotland on Sunday

• Adding insult to injury

Intimacy and Relationships

Easteal, Patricia & McOrmond-Plummer, Louise Hybrid Publishers, 2006

• Real Rape, Real Pain

The effect of participant sex, victim dress, and traditional attitudes on causal judgements for marital rape victims. Whatley, Mark A. Journal of Family Violence, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2005

The lore of sexual difference in social and legal discourse on ‘date rape’. Bryan, Ian and Wallbank, Julie. Law and Critique 15: 183-206, 2004

Women’s Health Australia

• Raped by a partner: A research report. Women’s Health Goulburn North East, 2008

US Department of Justice, 2000

• Extent, nature and consequences of intimate partner violence

Australian Institute of Criminology

• Intimate partner sexual assault: the impact of competing demands on victims’ decisions to seek criminal justice solutions (2003). Lievore, Denise

Washington City Paper

• David Lisak on acquaintance rapists: “We’re giving a free pass to sexual predators”

New Statesman

• Raped by person known

Library Index

• Rape and sexual harassment around the world – marital rape

The Age, Australia

• Study finds rape in marriage horror

The Telegraph

• Acquaintance rapists to receive lighter sentences
• Acquaintance rapists treated more leniently