Proper Victims?: Public Salience and Sexual Offences

Who should attend?

This is an invitation only event for Year 12 and Year 13 students.

Event overview

This day-long workshop will engage students aged 16-18 in two cutting-edge social science problems: 

• Does society expect ‘proper’ victims of sexual violence to appear a particular way?
• And are we failing to protect victims that do not confirm this stereotype?

Certainly widespread institutional failure to believe the victims of sexual abuse is a recognised problem, endemic across multiple points of the justice system, and is a trend that has been well documented in the surrounding literature.

This vital civic issue is thus the focus of this one day event. The themes of our research - centred around the policing of sexual violence, and the accountability of those operating within the justice system - will be deliberated through an interactive simulation of a public inquiry.

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Registration and contact details

This event is invite-only for Year 12 and Year 13 students, however for more information please contact esrcfestival@exeter.ac.uk