Download This PaperPeople with Secrets: Contesting, Constructing, and Resisting Women's Claims About Sexualized Victimization
61 Pages Posted: 26 Nov 2020
Date Written: 2016
Abstract
By contrasting two groups of women affected by sexual offenses — those reporting a sexual assault and those charged with prostitution — we show that ideal victim theory is insufficient to explain the range of law enforcement responses to women associated with sexual transgressions. We remedy the deficiencies of ideal victim theory by proposing the Arena of Intelligibility (hereinafter "the Arena") to capture the dynamic, relational processes that shape how women are identified and categorized by legal actors.
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Corrigan, Rose and Shdaimah, Corey, People with Secrets: Contesting, Constructing, and Resisting Women's Claims About Sexualized Victimization (2016). Catholic University Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 3, 2016, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3590266