Review of a Scholarly Peer-reviewed Article
In the article Understanding Attribution of Blame in Cases of Rape: An Analysis of Participant Gender, Type of Rape and Perceived Similarity to the Victim, which was published in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of Sexual Aggression, the authors Amy Rose Grubb and Julie Harrower (2009) described the findings of a study where they aimed to determine the various factors that “may influence attributions towards rape victims” (Grubb & Harrower, 2009, p. 63). In particular, they worked with the hypotheses that males will attribute higher levels of blame on the victim than will females; that higher levels of blame ...