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Abstract
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For last three decades in Korea, while sexual violence has been actively discussed for legislation, the lethal influence of sexual victimization on victims has been over-emphasized.
Such myths of sexual victimization lethality so label victims that hinder recovery from victimization. Moreover, those play a role for criminal justice system to deny victims'' experience of victimization through establishing hierarchy of typical sexual violence victim.
This study aims to find out how societal myths of sexual victimization lethality effect on victim''s doing typical victim. For that, mediation effect of victim''s experience of psychological sequela is examined. With survey sample of 181 sexual violence victims, the results show that the myths of sexual victimization lethality increases the dependent and the mediate variable. The mediate variable, which ispsychological sequela fully mediates the causal relationship between societal myths of sexual victimization lethality and victim''s doing ''typical victim.''
In conclusion, this study discusses the limitations of present criminal justice system with regard to biased view of treat sexual violence victims and asserts the necessity of reconstruction of the meaning of sexual violence considering victim''s standpoints.
Language: ko-kr |