SynthesisTrauma, violence & abuse2023
Forty Years of Rape Myth Acceptance Interventions: A Systematic Review of What Works in Naturalistic Institutional Settings and How this can be Applied to Educational Guidance for Jurors.
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- Mock Jurors' Determinations of Guilt in Sexual Offences Involving Male Victims: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Pooled it
- The Impact of Rape Myth Education on Jury Decision-Making: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
- Rape Myth Acceptance and Its Link with Mental Health Problems in Older Victims of Sexual Violence.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- When Appearances Deceive: Rape Myth Schemas Influence Attractiveness Effects Across Cultures.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2026Article
- Prevalence of generative artificial intelligence sexualized image usage by adolescents in the United States.PloS one · 2026Article
- Investigating the role of psychopathic personality traits, gender and ethnicity in rape myth acceptance.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2025Article
- The effect of verdict system on juror decisions: a quantitative meta-analysis.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2025Article
- GHB, Chemsex and Chemical Submission: Investigating the Role of Sexuality on Victim Empathy and Blame Attribution in Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault against Men.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Associations between defensive victim-blaming responses (DARVO), rape myth acceptance, and sexual harassment.PloS one · 2024Article
- Mock-Jurors' Judgements in a Sexual Assault Case: The Influence of Defendant Race and Occupational Status, Delayed Reporting, and Multiple Allegations.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
- Male Victims of Sexual Abuse: Impact and Resilience Processes, a Qualitative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Global, regional, and national burdens of interpersonal violence in young women aged 10-24 years from 1990 to 2019: a trend analysis based on the global burden of disease study 2019.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Masochist or Murderer? A Discourse Analytic Study Exploring Social Constructions of Sexually Violent Male Perpetrators, Female Victims-Survivors and the Rough Sex Defense on Twitter.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Prevalence and correlates of sexual harassment in professional service firms.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Juror characteristics on trial: Investigating how psychopathic traits, rape attitudes, victimization experiences, and juror demographics influence decision-making in an intimate partner rape trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Sex Trafficking Myth Reduction: Evaluating an Educational Approach to Reducing Victim Blaming and Increasing Victim Empathy.Behavioral sciences & the lawArticle
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Abstract
A systematic review of research assessing rape myth acceptance (RMA) interventions within institutional settings was conducted. The aim of this review was to inform the development of an educational intervention for jurors in rape trials that addresses rape myths, given previous evidence that RMA can affect decision-making and verdicts (Dinos et al., 2015; Gravelin et al., 2019; Leverick, 2020). 12 databases were searched, filtered to return peer-reviewed journals, published from 1980 to 2020, written in English. After removing duplicates from the 5,093 search results returned, 2,676 studies were screened for inclusion. Research studies were included in the review if they assessed the impact of a naturalistic intervention on RMA within an institutional setting. Studies that did not compare an experimental condition to a control condition or did not randomly allocate participants to conditions were excluded. Studies were also excluded if they used a non-validated, or adapted, RMA measure. 20 Research studies were included within the review and were critically appraised according to an author-created critical appraisal tool. It was concluded that RMA interventions can have a short-term impact upon individuals' RMA. Intervention types that were effective in reducing RMA included those that presented RM information; those that contained an empathy component; and bystander programmes. With regards to duration and format, short interventions led to reductions in RMA, and most successful interventions were presented via videos. Implications for policy and practice, and recommendations for future research, are discussed.
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