Victims of crime and other negative events can sometimes become targets of hostility and blame, where others assume they must have deserved or brought on the misfortune. For example, they might ...

This post was co-written by Mellissa Withers, Ellen Minkin, and Alyssa Kyle. Various instances of sexual misconduct and violence against women have come to light in recent years, many of them as part ...

PUTTING blame on the victim of a crime, such as physical or sexual assault, is a sordid practice as old as history itself. Rape victims are castigated for the egregious violation they suffered for ...

There are many sad and discouraging aspects of the downtown "brawl," but maybe the most repugnant is the victim-blaming (which, according to the prosecutor who has seen all the evidence, is not true) ...

Dee Devlin issued a statement on Instagram on Tuesday, November 26 defending her longtime fiancé Conor McGregor, the Irish sports star who a jury found assaulted Nikita Hand in a Dublin hotel in ...