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Myths about myths? A commentary on Thomas (2020) and the question of jury rape myth acceptance

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posted on 2021-09-08, 10:20 authored by Ellen Daly, Olivia SmithOlivia Smith, Hannah Bows, Jennifer Brown, James Chalmers, Sharon Cowan, Miranda Horvath, Fiona Leverick, Jo Lovett, Vanessa Munro, Dominic Willmott

This commentary responds to claims that research by Cheryl Thomas ‘shows’ no problem with rape myths in English and Welsh juries. We critique the claim on the basis of ambiguous survey design, a false distinction between ‘real’ jurors and other research participants, the conflation of attitudes in relation to abstract versus applied rape myths, and misleading interpretation of the data. Ultimately, we call for a balanced appraisal of individual studies by contextualising them against the wider literature.

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  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy

Published in

Journal of Gender-Based Violence

Volume

7

Issue

1

Pages

189-200

Publisher

Policy Press

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© Centre for Gender and Violence Research University of Bristol

Publisher statement

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Journal of Gender-Based Violence. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Daly, E., Smith, O., Bows, H., Brown, J., Chalmers, J., Cowan, S., Horvath, M., Leverick, F., Lovett, J., Munro, V., & Willmott, D. (2023). Myths about myths? A commentary on Thomas (2020) and the question of jury rape myth acceptance, Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 7(1), 189-200 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/239868021X16371459419254.

Acceptance date

2021-07-23

Publication date

2022-01-06

Copyright date

2023

ISSN

2398-6808

eISSN

2398-6816

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Olivia Smith. Deposit date: 2 September 2021

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