<P> Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm that befell them . The study of victimology seeks to mitigate the perception of victims as responsible . There is a greater tendency to blame victims of rape than victims of robbery if victims and perpetrators know each other . </P> <P> Psychologist William Ryan coined the phrase "blaming the victim" in his 1971 book Blaming the Victim . In the book, Ryan described victim blaming as an ideology used to justify racism and social injustice against black people in the United States . Ryan wrote the book to refute Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1965 work The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (usually simply referred to as the Moynihan Report). </P>

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