third of people believe a woman is partially or completely responsible for being raped if she has behaved flirtatiously, a survey suggests.
The Amnesty International poll of 1,000 people also found over 25% believe she is at least partly to blame if she has worn revealing clothing or been drunk. Amnesty says the "shocking" findings show government policies are failing. And the director of public prosecutions told the BBC the report "highlights some areas of real concern". Ken Macdonald QC, who is in charge of prosecutions in England and Wales, spoke to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. "The idea that a third of our people think that if a woman flirts she has only herself to blame if she is raped is, I think, quite shocking," he said. "These are jury trials. The jury is the community in the courtroom and it is reasonable to suppose the jury brings into the courtroom a lot of the attitudes we have been reading about." The Home Office says it has changed the law to try to improve conviction rates. "We have made a number of changes to the legal system and to how the police and Crown Prosecution Service work, to put victims needs first and to make it easier for cases to get to trial and secure convictions," a spokesman said.
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"They still put the woman on trial, including her sexual history with other men, which is supposed to be banned and blame the woman for what happened to her and hold her accountable," she said. (got this from BBC)
do you think that women who are drunk and flirt call for rape?should women be blamed after being used an sex object by men?Or is this another excuse in a man dominated world for the actions of men?
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