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

"You are the one to blame". You provoked him. Next time, get dressed more modest. "What did you do so that he does not beat you?"

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

Ex-prosecutor and a legal specialist in the field of sexual violence Deborah Tyukheimer tells stories about people who have experienced sexual violence, and considers these stories through a 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 Victimblem