Theories of Image-Based Sexual Abuse

Fido, Dean; Harper, Craig A.

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“…Here, we hypothesized that greater levels of victim blame, a reduced likelihood to call for police and seek criminal justice interventions, and lower levels of perceived victim harm would be reported in vignettes featuring male (relative to female) victims and attractive (relative to unattractive) victims. This is consistent with prior work on IBSA offenses (see Fido & Harper, 2020), and may be reflective of the stereotypically gendered view of sexual violence. Second, we set out to understand whether focal psychological traits predict (a) judgments of upskirting offenses, and (b) proclivities for engaging in upskirting behaviors.…”

Section: The Current Researchsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Although this allowed for control over variation in legislation and legislative developments (such as via the Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019), our findings require international replication to explore and understand differences in cultural values and norms which might further impact judgment scores (for a discussion, see Fido & Harper, 2020). Second, we recognize that the vignette used within this research provided a niche context, which might not accurately represent other means by which upskirting occurs.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Upskirting forms just one type of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) and is often discussed alongside so-called 'revenge pornography' 1 , deepfake sexual media production, and cyber-flashing (Fido & Harper, 2020;Harper et al, 2021;.…”

Section: Defining and Understanding Upskirting Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, views about IBSA have been consistently shown to be predicted by socalled 'dark' personality traits (see Fido & Harper, 2020). The 'Dark Tetrad' refers to a series of personality traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, sadism, and psychopathy), which manifest on a continuum within the general population (Paulhus et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The authors recognise the negative and harmful discourse around the term 'revenge porn(ography)' in that it describes images that are generated through consensual means, and which are shared as a result of the behavior of the victim (seeFido & Harper, 2020). However, with this term commonplace in written and spoken media, we use it here to better connect to the lay reader.…”

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Understanding social judgments of, and proclivities to commit upskirting

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Duff³

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Against a backdrop of legislative change that sees the taking of private sexual images underneath the clothing of a non-consenting other being made a criminal offence – upskirting – there is a need to understand the public’s judgments of, and motivations to perpetrate said behavior. In this study (N = 490), we investigated whether judgments of upskirting differed as a function of victim sex (male, female) and their perceived attractiveness (attractive, unattractive), as well as how variation in voyeuristic interest, belief in a just world, and psychopathic personality traits predicted judgments of, and proclivity to engage in upskirting behaviors. We consistently observed more lenient judgments of upskirting behaviors when victims were attractive and male, with such judgements predicted by older age across all conditions. Moreover, proclivity to engage in upskirting was predicted by past voyeuristic behaviors, higher psychopathic personality, and being male and of older age. We discuss our findings in the context of needing to qualitatively understand the general public’s rationale for said disparity in judgments, as well as identifying and combating barriers to disclose victimization. Open data and a preprint of this paper are available at https://osf.io/wyt2z/?view_only=ca4ea7b5886b4a52aad67cfd847d7af1.

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Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Defining and Understanding Upskirting Behaviorsmentioning

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Section: Psychological Predictors Of Ibsa Judgmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Re-faced and Pornified— A Visual, Narrative Analysis of Sexual Scripts in Police Cases of Image-based Abuse

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2022

The British Journal of Criminology

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This article analyses police cases to argue that image-based sexual abuse should not be understood as only happening to women who have shared risqué image of themselves. Anyone could have sexual images shared without consent, because all digital images can be pornified by the addition of sexually explicit iconography. Pornography is important to research visually because porn is a sexual script that can be used to alter any image from everyday and/or intimate to abusive. The research field on nonconsensual sharing of intimate images has abolished the term ‘revenge porn’ as contributing to victim blaming: Image-based sexual abuse is not caused by any acts justifying ‘revenge’. However, the relevance of the concept of ‘porn’ may have been too hastily dismissed.

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Theories of Image-Based Sexual Abuse

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Understanding social judgments of, and proclivities to commit upskirting

Understanding social judgments of, and proclivities to commit upskirting

Re-faced and Pornified— A Visual, Narrative Analysis of Sexual Scripts in Police Cases of Image-based Abuse

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