ONE in four people believe women who have been raped are partly to blame for the crime because of how they dressed, their sexual history or how much they had to drink
An Irish Examiner/Red C national opinion poll on people’s attitudes to sex crimes found a core section of our society think rape victims are totally or partially responsible for being attacked
More than 30% think a victim is some way responsible if she flirts with a man or fails to say no clearly
10% of people think the victim is entirely at fault if she has had a number of sexual partners
37% think a woman who flirts extensively is at least complicit, if not completely in the wrong, if she is the victim of a sex crime
One in three think a woman is either partly or fully to blame if she wears revealing clothes
38% believe a woman must share some of the blame if she walks through a deserted area
Dramatic differences in empathy towards victims based on age and social class are revealed
clipped from: www.examiner.ie