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It Takes Two to Tango: Victims, Perpetrators, and the Dynamics of Victimization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2018

Jaclyn M. Jensen  and
Jana L. Raver
Jaclyn M. Jensen*
Affiliation:
Department of Management & Entrepreneurship, Richard H. Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University
Jana L. Raver
Affiliation:
Smith School of Business, Queen's University
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jaclyn Jensen, Department of Management & Entrepreneurship, Richard H. Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University, 1 E. Jackson Blvd., Suite 7100, Chicago, IL 60604. E-mail: jjense10@depaul.edu
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As researchers who have advanced victim precipitation arguments in our own work on victimization and job performance (Jensen, Patel, & Raver, 2014), we agree fully with this statement made by Cortina, Rabelo, and Holland (2018): “A victim's traits or behaviors might help us understand why the instigator chose that particular person for abuse, but we must always emphasize that it was the instigator, not the victim, who did the choosing and abusing” (p. 93). An overemphasis on victim characteristics does deflect attention away from wrongdoers, and theory that encourages us to consider perpetrator motivation and the social environment is needed.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 141 - 144
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2018 

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