Handbook on Sexual Violence (112 page)

victim examination suites (VES) 126 victim statement 142

Victim Support 422

victimisation 72

in prostitution 221–4 victims

blamimg 18–19

deserving 16–17

distrust of 197

experience of legal system 461–2, 468–

9

mental health of 461 or perpetrators 342–3

prostitution victimisation 221–4

repeat victimisation 300–1

secondary victimisation 126, 459–63 as sexual aggressor 85

silencing of 375–6, 490

as survivors 417–33 suspicion of female 74–5

unacknowledged victimisation 165 victim examination suites (VES) 126 victim/perpetrator binary challenged

342–3

Victim Support 422

vulnerability of online 364, 369

Victorian family 33

Victorian womens movement 43 Violence Against Women Initiative 297 violence, used as a silencing agent 254 ‘virgin cure’ 38

virginity 27, 29, 34 virgins, rape of 255 vulnerable witnesses 20

war crimes 42

War on Terrorism 193, 343

warfare, sexual violence and 28–9, 37,

41–2, 190–4, 343

cessation of hostilities 193–4 examples of rape in war 191 gender dimensions 41 problem with statistics 191 rape as genocide 191

web cameras 360–1

well being, children and young people in UK 347

Westminster statutes 26

white slavery 36

white women’s testimony 75

Whittaker v State
74 wife beating 255

‘wife obedience’ 69

Wigmore, John 75

Williams, Glanville 75, 76, 86

Witness Service 422

Wittig, Monique 54, 62 women

courtroom depositions 29 sexual abuse by 186

and violence in contemporary

literature 57–66

and violence in literary history 55–7 Women Asylum Seekers Together

(WAST) 427

Women’s Aid 97

domestic violence definition 288–9 women’s liberation movement 423, 433

Women’s National Commission 20, 98,

497

Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre 420

Worboys, John 72

Wordsworth, W. 56–7

work environment hypothesis 404 workplace bullying 394–411

consequences of 400

defining characteristics of 396–9 exposure to 399–400

organisational responses 408–11

sexual orientation, bullying and harssment 400–3

specific explanation of sexuality and bullying 404–8

theoretical perspectives of LGBs and people with disabilities 403–4

World Health Organisation, FGM figures 97

Wright, Steve 249, 321–2

Yarl’s Wood Immigration Centre 343 Yates, John 487

Yorkshire Ripper
see
Sutcliffe, Peter Yugoslavia 191, 192

Youth Internet Safety Survey 371

Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 116, 143