Model Victims of Hate: Victim Blaming in the Context of Islamophobic Hate Crime

Prior research has explored victim blaming in the context of hate, often depicting hate crime victims as relatively passive recipients of harassment and violence. In reality, victims often do engage with their perpetrators, and the present research explored the effect that victim behavior might have...

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Authors: Erentzen, Caroline (Author) ; Schuller, Regina A. (Author) ; Gardner, Robert C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2021
In: Journal of interpersonal violence
Year: 2021, Volume: 36, Issue: 11/12, Pages: 5422-5445
Further subjects:B victim blame
B Islamophobia
B Hate crime
B blame attribution
B Muslim
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