In this episode, the second in their true crime arc, Marc and Kristina discuss the role of the victim in the true crime genre. Historically, when the victim began to enter the narrative, authors and audiences tended to place the blame for their victimhood on their shoulders. As time has gone on, authors, and especially podcasters, have tried to find ways to recenter the victim as an agent in the narrative. In this episode, Marc and Kristina discuss this trend, the reasons why victim blaming may have happened at all, and whether or not there is a way for people to approach the victim's stories without "blaming" them at all.
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Sources:
Cherry, Kendra. The Just-World Phenomenon Overview and Examples: Why we blame victims in order to rationalize why bad things happen. VeryWell Mind. May 9, 2020
Rubenhold, Hallie. The Five: The untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Doubleday. 2019.
Stephanie Harlowe's Victim Blaming: A letter from a former fan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTYdVQ8dhVg&t=2217s
Rawls - Justice and Fairness in Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8KPozy0NII
Hallie Rubenhold and Bee Rowaltt | The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giwCmU2szv4
For Jack the Ripper Inquest reports: https://www.casebook.org/official_documents/inquests/index.html
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