"blaming the victim" what is that term called.?

Answer 1

Rape is the only crime where the victim has to prove their innocence.

I pasted the following from the web.
"Just-world hypothesis"
It has been proposed that one cause of victim-blaming is the "Just World Hypothesis". People who believe that the world has to be fair, may find it hard or impossible to accept a situation in which a person is unfairly and badly hurt for no cause or reason. This leads to a sense that, somehow, the victim must have surely done 'something' to deserve their fate. Another theory entails the need to protect one's own sense of invulnerability. This inspires people to believe that rape only happens to those who deserve or provoke the assault (Schneider et. al., 1994). This is a way of feeling safer. If the potential victim avoids the behaviours of the past victims then they themselves will remain safe and feel less vulnerable. A global survey of attitudes toward sexual violence by the Global Forum for Health Research shows that victim-blaming concepts are at least partially accepted in many countries. In some countries, victim-blaming is more common, and women who have been raped are sometimes deemed to have behaved improperly. Often, these are countries where there is a significant social divide between the freedoms and status afforded to men and women. This theory dates from very ancient times: the biblical Book of Job offers a canonical exploration of it.

Supporters of this view (once referred to as "Job's comforters") must perforce accept that to do otherwise would require them to give up their belief in a just world, and require them to believe in a world where bad things — such as poverty, rape, starvation, and murder — can happen to good people for no good reason. The cognitive dissonance in doing this becomes too great, and results in victim-blaming.

Answer 2

Justification or Projection?

BTW

RE: Rape is the only crime where the victim has to prove their innocence.

I disagree. Somehow being poor or black is socially punishable as a crime. I live in a historic African American neighborhood in Houston, where residents have been unlawfully evicted, denied due process, and made victims of malfeasance and fraud, while expected to seek legal recourse "after the fact" which they cannot afford. So they are essentially punished or deprived of equal rights simply because they are poor or black or both, and cannot afford access to equal legal protection to defend their rights in advance of violation by corporate abuses of power.

In NY, in the case of Sean Bell, shot to death by police officers on his wedding day, he and his friends were assumed to have a gun until they were later found to be unarmed, after two were injured and Sean was dead. After the shooting, other friends of the shooting victims were detained and interrogated, without legal assistance, by police officials seeking information to justify the shooting.

So it seems if you are an young African American male, you can be held suspect until proven innocent, and either detained, questioned or killed without proper due process.

Answer 3

It's like if a person get rapes and you blame them for being at the wrong place at the wrong time or you blame them for the way they dress!

Answer 4

Misdirected blame.

Answer 5

RESPONSIBILITY, because too often the victim, by his refusal to defend himself, is really an accomplice.

Answer 6

The word I think you are looking for is "scapegoating."

Answer 7

justice