Seeking help

[bluflamingo]

So, some of you have heard me ramble on about this, I'm sure, but I'm in the dissertation stage of my masters degree. My topic is peer perceptions of date rape victims - basically, I'm looking at how the peer group of victims assign responsibility for the crime.

As part of this, I'm conducting a short online survey, for which I'm looking for participants. It should only take a few minutes to complete.

There are some requirements/exclusions for participants:

- Any gender
- Must be aged between 18 and 30
- Must NOT have been a victim of serious sexual assault, including date rape
- Must NOT have been accused or convicted of serious sexual assault, including date rape.
- You do not have to personally know someone who has been a victim of date rape.

If you'd be willing to take some time and fill out my survey, I'd be really, really grateful. If you'd be willing to send on the link to other people who might be willing to fill it out, I'd be even more grateful.

Peer Perceptions of Date Rape Victims

Comments

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

So I took this survey and was surprised how often my thoughts always came back to "No is no is no." However one thing that kind of bothered me was that the scenario for the reverse was never presented. I mean if a girl wants sex and the guy says no, but the girl does it anyway is the guy anymore to blame then the girl in that situation? Of course you're probably basing the whole thing totally from the female pov in which case I understand it more. It was a good survey though.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

However one thing that kind of bothered me was that the scenario for the reverse was never presented

Yeah, a few people have said that. Basically, I've got 2 months, just over, to research and write up, and only 15,000 words in which to do it, which sounds like a lot but isn't really. So I had to narrow the topic, and chose to focus on the most common form of date rape, mainly because people are likely to have the strongest pre-formed ideas about this.

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

Yes I thought that might be the case. I do hope you get a lot of feedback with this, because I'm interested in seeing how it will turn out.