Rape: Too hard to report and too easy to discredit victims

Violence Against Women

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1335-1344

  Belknap, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

false allegations; rape

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RAPE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VICTIM;

CRIME VICTIMS; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; RAPE; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 78650264774     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801210387749     Document Type: Article

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