reviewAmerican PsychologistSep 1, 2014Closed access

Institutional betrayal.

University of Oregon

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Abstract

A college freshman reports a sexual assault and is met with harassment and insensitive investigative practices leading to her suicide. Former grade school students, now grown, come forward to report childhood abuse perpetrated by clergy, coaches, and teachers--first in trickles and then in waves, exposing multiple perpetrators with decades of unfettered access to victims. Members of the armed services elect to stay quiet about sexual harassment and assault during their military service or risk their careers by speaking up. A Jewish academic struggles to find a name for the systematic destruction of his people in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. These seemingly disparate experiences have in common trusted and…

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Topics & keywords

Keywords
  • Betrayal
  • Harm
  • Harassment
  • Criminology
  • Psychology
  • Military service
  • Political science
  • Social psychology
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Gender equality
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