Influence Of Victim's Clothing

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In the article Influence of victim's attire is about different case studies that looked at adolescent's judgment of date rape by Cassidy, Linda, Hurell, Rose Marie. There were a few different case studies taken from within the United States and India for this article. For the first case study, they depict a study involving 352 male and female high school students that were shown the effects of a victim's clothing on where the vignette was accompanied by either a photograph of the victim dressed provocatively or through a photograph of the victim dressed conservatively, or no photograph at all. For the students that viewed the photographs of the victims the students believed that the victims who wore more provocative clothing were more likely

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