Wentz And Archbold Qualitative Analysis

According to Greeson, et al., (2016), majority of survivors felt as if they had a mixed experiences, because it seemed as if one officer blamed them for their sexual assault while another officer who did not blame them. The Wentz and Archbold (2012), study used the intra – female hostility thesis as the frame work for the study. The intra – female hostility thesis states that females are less sympathetic towards female victims. According to Wentz and Archbold (2012), the qualitative analysis showed some support for the intra – female hostility thesis while the quantitative analysis for this study showed no support for the intra – female hostility thesis. This means that on some level female police officers place blame on victims and are less sympathetic …show more content…
These results convey that the gender of the officer will affect the level of victim blaming that occurs and how obvious it is. The results also indicate that is not much sympathy for sexual assault victims among police officers, meaning officers may not take the victim’s claims seriously. Some police officers would question the victim and ask how they were behaving before the assault, to make it seem that they were insinuating their behaviour was the reason for the assault (Greeson et al., 2016, Wentz & Archbold, 2012). All the questioning led the victims to believe that the police blame them or that they were lying about what had happened, also the police seemed skeptical about what happened (Greeson et al., 2016). According to Greeson, et al., (2016), adolescents feel that they are being blamed by police and being assaulted was their fault, because police tend to have a level of distrust with adolescents. These results convey that police officers tend not trust adolescents due to stereotyping and may take their case of sexual assault less serious than an adult’s case of sexual