Trouble with Blame Victims, Perpetrators, and Responsibility

Name: Trouble with Blame Victims, Perpetrators, and Responsibility
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ISBN: 9780674910102

ISBN-10: 0674910109

ISBN-13: 9780674910102

Edition: 1996

Authors: Sharon Lamb

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Blame society. Blame a bad upbringing. Blame the circumstances. Blame the victim--she may even blame herself. But what about the perpetrator? When the blame is all assigned, will anyone be left to take responsibility? This powerful book takes up the disturbing topic of victimization and blame as a pathology of our time and its consequences for personal responsibility. By probing the psychological dynamics of victims and perpetrators of rape, sexual abuse, and domestic violence, Sharon Lamb seeks to answer some crucial questions: How do victims become victims and sometimes perpetrators? How can we break the psychological circle of perpetrators blaming others and victims blaming…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Note on Terminology


Prologue



Who Is to Blame?



Victims



Perpetrators



Onlookers



The Making of Perpetrators and Victims



Forgiveness and Punishment


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index