It Takes Two to Tango: Victims, Perpetrators, and the Dynamics of Victimization

Jaclyn M. Jensen and Jana L. Raver

Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2018, vol. 11, issue 1, 141-144

Abstract: As researchers who have advanced victim precipitation arguments in our own work on victimization and job performance (Jensen, Patel, & Raver, 2014), we agree fully with this statement made by Cortina, Rabelo, and Holland (2018): “A victim's traits or behaviors might help us understand why the instigator chose that particular person for abuse, but we must always emphasize that it was the instigator, not the victim, who did the choosing and abusing” (p. 93). An overemphasis on victim characteristics does deflect attention away from wrongdoers, and theory that encourages us to consider perpetrator motivation and the social environment is needed.

Date: 2018
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