Accusing the victim. Why do we not believe the victims and protect the rapists

"To blame." "You provoked him." “Next time, get dressed more modestly”, “What do you do: so that he doesn’t beat you?”

This book is a big study of fictimblem and an attempt to show how our culture, legal system and psyche have formed a whole set of cognitive distortions and prejudices that allow the rapists to remain unpunished, guilty of the victims.

The ex-prosecutor and a legal specialist in the field of sexual violence Deborah, Tyukhaimer tells stories about people who have survived sexual violence and examines these stories Through the prism of trust: how, on the basis of such fragile matter, we decide who is telling the truth? How do we choose which side to stand on: Him or her? And what can protect the victims of violence from visitor?