Some of the reasons that friends and strangers alike blame victims for sexual assault may surprise you and make you very ...

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 ...

The Anti-Defamation League accused Megyn Kelly of using an antisemitic trope against Ben Shapiro and victim-blaming Bari Weiss after Kelly outrageously claimed the two, who are Jewish, are causing ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shame is common among financial fraud victims, making it all the more important not to inject blame into the mix. (Illustration by Roche Cruchon for The Washington ...

A new survey on sexual assault has the Brits up in arms. A majority of respondents thought "that there are some circumstances where a person should accept responsibility" for being raped, for example ...