Blaming the Victim is a 30-minute radio documentary which explores victim blaming attitudes towards sexual assault victims. Victim blaming is a phenomenon where blame is partially or fully attributed to a victim of an assault. These attitudes may sound outrageous but the reality is that many sexual assault victims are, to this day, still blamed for their own attacks. The documentary examines why people have victim-blaming attitudes, how these attitudes are perpetuated and why victims often blame themselves for their own attacks. It also highlights some common misperceptions of sexual assault such as who its victims and perpetrators are.

Please feel free to send any questions, comments or feedback to mail.blamingthevictim [at] gmail!

Special thanks to Mike Quinlan (http://soundcloud.com/thetattedspyder) for providing the voice of Roger Ebert.

The tracks heard in this feature are, in order of appearance:
• Drone in D by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• Unanswered Questions by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• Jarvic 8 by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• Over Under by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• Bicycle by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• Karma by JC+GK (jamendo.com)
• 10th of August by JC+GK (jamendo.com)
• Infinite Horizon by Josh Woodward (joshwoodward.com)
• Already There by Josh Woodward (joshwoodward.com)

Producer/ Writer/Presenter: Grace Chen
Supervisor: Bradley C. Freeman

This work was produced as a Final Year Project in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
© Grace Chen, 2013

http://www.prx.org/pieces/96030-blaming-the-victim

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