Victim blaming

Victim blaming refers to situations in which the victim is held responsible for behavior that violates the boundaries or that is a criminal offense. Shifting the blame in this way is an attempt to acquit the person responsible and to justify their discriminatory action. One common example concerns the question of which clothes the victims were wearing when the sexualized violence occurred. This suggests that the victims are responsible for the transgression, even though the responsibility always lies with the people acting in a transgressive or discriminatory manner.

Sources: Awareness Akademie; Queer Lexikon