In recent years there has been a steady increase in the amount of literature on perceptions of male victim of sexual assault. Much of this research focuses around the concept of victim blame. This paper reviews the research on perceptions of male victims of sexual assault, with particular reference to victim blame for male rape. The paper considers the conceptual differences in types of blame i...

objective: the purposes of this study were to examine the relationships between personality traits, cognitive emotion regulation strategies and impulsive behaviors of borderline personality disorder, and to explore which personality traits and cognitive emotion regulation strategies can better predict and explain the impulsive behaviors in borderline personality disorder. methods: this study wa...

This article argues for a systems approach to learning how to improve performance, conceptualising child protection services as complex, adaptive systems. This requires an acceptance of the complexity of the work, the essential role of professional judgment, and the need for feedback loops in the system where lower level workers are not afraid to communicate honestly about their experiences, bo...

This article draws on 3,500 responses from fans and professionals involved in association football (soccer) to an anonymous online survey posted from June 2010 to October 2010 regarding their views towards gay footballers. The overall findings are that, contrary to assumptions of homophobia, there is evidence of rapidly decreasing homophobia within the culture of football fandom. The results ad...

Abstract It is widely accepted that there what has been called a non-hypocrisy norm on the appropriateness of moral blame; roughly, one standing to blame only if not guilty very offence seeks criticize. Our acceptance this embodied in common retort criticism, “Who are you me?” But paradox lurking behind commonplace norm. If it always inappropriate for x y wrong committed, then all cases which b...