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Bad Men, Good Men, Bystanders: Who Is the Rapist?

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In an influential article, Carine Mondorossian (2002, 753) lamented that a “lopsided focus” on
victims in public discussions of rape tended to support a belief that victims of sexual assault
suffered from a “self-defeating personality disorder.” This lopsided focus also left questions
related to perpetrators—and by extension, actions aimed at preventing future assaults—out of
focus. Resisting a ubiquitous blame-the-victim ideology, the feminist antirape movement since the
1960s has struggled to shine light on perpetrators, and starting in the mid-1970s leaders in the
movement encouraged and mentored small numbers of men to work with boys and young men to
prevent future assaults against women (Greenberg and Messner 2014). In the past decade—
especially with growing awareness that sexual assault is endemic in the military, organized sports,
schools, and universities—institutional efforts to prevent violence against women have blossomed
(Messner, Greenberg, and Peretz 2015).

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Gender & Society

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Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications., 2016

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English

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08912432

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Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2016, pp. 57–66

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