Podcast
Strict Scrutiny
This book provided a comprehensive overview of how law and culture view sexual misconduct allegations, focusing on the concept of credibility and its impact on responses to such claims. The book laid out a framework of 'this happened, it was wrong, it matters' as functional equivalents for dismissing allegations, and it explored how cultural myths like the 'perfect victim' archetype warp judgments.
And today we're going to talk about Deb's excellent new book, Credible, Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers, which was published in late 2021.
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Episode: Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abuser...
This book provided a comprehensive overview of how law and culture view sexual misconduct allegations, focusing on the concept of credibility and its impact on responses to such claims. The book laid out a framework of 'this happened, it was wrong, it matters' as functional equivalents for dismissing allegations, and it explored how cultural myths like the 'perfect victim' archetype warp judgments.
And today we're going to talk about Deb's excellent new book, Credible, Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers, which was published in late 2021.
The book that you have written, Credible, provides a comprehensive overview of how law and culture view sexual misconduct allegations, specifically when we're talking about male abusers and female accusers.
The credibility complex is my name for the cluster of forces, often unseen forces, that warp our judgments about credibility.
And so this is a process that brings together not only the victim and the offender but also members of their community be it friends and family and together in this sort of collaborative setting the idea is to come up with ways that the victim will be restored to the greatest extent possible and also that the offender will not repeat the offense that there will be some sort of moral education on the part of the offender.
Deborah Turkeimer thank you so much for being here the book is credible it provides an incredibly useful framework that helps make visible some of these deep undercurrents in law and culture order it wherever you get your books Deb thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us today