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1. What is the primary difference between Chrissie Hynde’s response to her sexual assault, and the response from Chanel Miller ?
2. Now consider our review of theories and risk factors: Do most of the theories and the literature we’ve examined suggest some culpability on the victim’s part?
• Directly through behavior?
• Indirectly through personality, vulnerabilities, and traits?
• Or structurally, through larger societal forces that place some groups at greater exposure levels?
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3. What does this mean to us?
• Can we have an explanation of risk that somehow does not implicate the victim as a primary causal agent?
• Can we consider the victim and his/her characteristics, etc., as causal but without implicitly blaming him/her ?
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4. At the end of the day, which victim accounting do you think is more in line with:
• O ur theories in terms of predictability of event,
• And whether the victims are in some manner responsible.
And which victim would garner more credibility from prosecutor/jury/judge, and should that matter?
