Intimate partner rape: a review of six core myths surrounding women's conduct and the consequences of intimate partner rape

C Lilley, D Willmott, D Mojtahedi, D Labhardt - Social Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The focus of this paper is to highlight and review the evidence surrounding common intimate
partner rape (IPR) myths, their prevalence in society, and identify those who are most likely …

Forty years of rape myth acceptance interventions: a systematic review of what works in naturalistic institutional settings and how this can be applied to educational …

LF Hudspith, N Wager, D Willmott… - Trauma, Violence, & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A systematic review of research assessing rape myth acceptance (RMA) interventions within
institutional settings was conducted. The aim of this review was to inform the development of …

Juror characteristics on trial: Investigating how psychopathic traits, rape attitudes, victimization experiences, and juror demographics influence decision-making in an …

C Lilley, D Willmott, D Mojtahedi - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Trial by jury is a longstanding legal tradition used in common law jurisdictions to
try the most serious of criminal cases. Yet, despite hearing the same trial evidence …

“I thought I'm better off just trying to put this behind me” – a contemporary approach to understanding why women decide not to report sexual violence

S Stewart, D Willmott, A Murphy… - The Journal of Forensic …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Sexual offence disclosures are on the rise, thought to be the result of growing numbers of
prosecutions brought against well-known public figures and mobilisation of movements such …

Juror decision-making within domestic sex trafficking cases: do pre-trial attitudes, gender, culture and right-wing authoritarianism predict believability assessments?

KL Stevens, D Mojtahedi, A Austin - Journal of Criminal Psychology, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to examine whether country of residence, sex trafficking attitudes,
complainant gender, juror gender and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) influenced juror …

Masochist or murderer? A discourse analytic study exploring social constructions of sexually violent male perpetrators, female victims-survivors and the rough sex …

CJ Sowersby, M Erskine-Shaw, D Willmott - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
“Rough sex” can be considered an act of sexual violence that is consensual or non-
consensual, often resulting in bodily harm and in rare cases, fatalities. The rough sex …

[HTML][HTML] Male rape myths: Examining the role of victim empathy and socio-demographics in a cross-sectional sample of UK adults

D Willmott, BK Widanaralalage - International journal of law, crime and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Whilst much is known about the psychosocial correlates of rape myth beliefs regarding
female victims, much less research has investigated factors that underlie male rape myth …

Do psychopathic traits, sexual victimisation experiences and emotional intelligence predict attitudes towards rape? Examining the psychosocial correlates of rape …

A Ioannides, D Willmott - Polish Psychological Bulletin, 2023 - journals.pan.pl
Vast research has sought to better understand the origins and development of rape myth
beliefs given the problematic influence of such misconceptions throughout global societies …

Exposure to information about sexual crimes and its relationship to perceptions of social threats and belief in a just world

T Grzyb, D Dolinski, P Muniak… - Journal of Criminal …, 2025 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of the two online experimental studies was to examine how
information about threats related to sexual crimes influences personal beliefs regarding …

Are legal experts better decision makers than jurors? A psychological evaluation of the role of juries in the 21st century

L Curley, T Neuhaus - Journal of Criminal Psychology, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The Scottish Government hope to pilot judge only rape trials to increase the
woefully low rape conviction rates in Scotland. The reasoning is that by removing jurors, the …