What is victim blaming? What are some of the theories pertaining to victim blaming?

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What is victim blaming?


Answer: The victim is held partially responsible for the wrongful conduct committed against them.

What are some of the theories pertaining to victim blaming?



Just World - we believe good things happen to good people and bad things to bad people, to believe that we have control of our outcomes.

Reconcile Middle Class - Connection between poverty and crime, non victims believe in work hard to have good things happen.

Errors of Reasoning found in Victim Blaming :



  • Tautological - Go around in circle, circular logic, going into a dark street and never have an accident then one time you do have a accident that street is not affiliated with victimizing.
  • Hindsight Bias - You knew you should have, Once you know the answer its easy, look at victim and see where everything went wrong.
  • Victim Responsibility - Victim can have control of outcome.
  • Allows for victim Prevention - Looks at victims action and figure out where they went wrong, stems from just world, false hope.
  • Fundamental Attribution Errors- You as a person are going to attribute your action to characteristics, victim blame to the situation, own action to reflection of the environment and other's actions as a reflection of them.

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