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Behavior in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Cases
VoiceThe NationalCenter for theProsecution ofViolence Against WomenTHEE xplaining Counterintuitive VictimBehavior in Domestic Violence andSexual Assault CasesAmerican ProsecutorsResearch InstituteVolume 1 Number 4 HelpingProsecutors GiveVictims a Voice When a victim alleges a domesticor Sexual Assault , the prevalenceof myths surrounding domesticand Sexual Violence causes the publicto search for a reason to doubt theallegation rather than to search for thetruth. The public often looks to victimbehavior, either during or after anassault, to determine if that Behavior isconsistent with its expectation of howa real victim of Domestic Violence orsexual Assault would behave. Membersof the public who are uneducatedabout victim responses to trauma mayview a victim s counterintuitive behav-ior as evidence of her lack of credibili-ty. Experienced prosecutors and oth-ers familiar with victim Behavior , how-ever, understand that victims have indi-vidual responses to trauma that areoften counterintuitive to public attorneys are eager tocapitalize on the public s lack ofknowledge about victim Behavior andoften fuel the public s suspicion ofdomestic and Sexual Violence victimsby presenting arguments in the mediaas well as in the courtroom thatreinforce the popular myth that coun-terintuitive victim Behavior is indica-tive of a victim s lack of can counter defenseattorneys mischaracterizations ofcounterintuitive victim Behavior byeducating j
voice The National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women THE Explaining Counterintuitive Victim Behavior in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Cases
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