Hidden Male Victimisation
Definition
Sexual or domestic victimisation of men and boys that is systematically undercounted because of stigma, service design built around female victims, and historically narrow legal definitions of rape.
Related terms
- Minority Stress
- Chronic stress produced by stigma, prejudice and expected rejection, layered on top of the ordinary stress of daily life, a concept developed...
- Structural Vulnerability
- A position in the social, legal or economic order that reduces a person's power to resist harm or to seek redress after...
- Underreporting
- The gap between crimes that actually occur against a population and the share of those crimes that reach police or another recording...
- Conversion Practices
- Attempts to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity through therapy, religious counselling or coercion, increasingly treated in law as a...
- Hate Crime Enhancement
- A sentencing add-on, distinct from the underlying offence, applied when a crime is proven to be motivated by bias against the victim's...
- Intersectionality
- Kimberle Crenshaw's 1989 term for how belonging to more than one vulnerable category produces a distinct, compounded risk rather than simple additive...
- Mandatory Reporting
- A statutory obligation in specified categories, most commonly child abuse and serious violent crime, that requires a health professional to report to...
- Online Sextortion of Minors
- Coercion of a child, typically through a fabricated relationship or a threat to release sexual images, into producing further sexual content or...
- Protective Legislation
- Anti-discrimination law and hate-crime enhancement law, the two broad legal instruments used to respond to structural-vulnerability crime.
Explained in these topics
- Crimes Against Women, Children and Marginalised Groups
- Crimes Against Women, Children, LGBTQ and Marginalised Groups (UGC-NET Unit I)Undercounted victimisation of men in sexual and domestic violence, worsened by narrow statutory definitions and survey and service design built around female v...