Editing Victim blaming (section)

==Horseshoe theory and nonpolarized views==
{{See also|Toxic masculinity|Rape myth|Just-world fallacy}}

Some scholars make the argument that some of the attitudes that are described as victim blaming and the victimologies that are said to counteract them are both extreme and similar to each other, an example of the [[horseshoe theory]]. For instance, they argue that the claim that "women wearing provocative clothing cause rape" is as demeaning to men as it is to women as depicting men as incapable of controlling their sexual desire is misandrist and denies men full agency, while also arguing that the generalization that women do not lie about rape (or any generalization about women not doing some things because of their gender) is misogynist by its implicit assumption that women act by simple default action modes which is incompatible with full agency.{{cn|date=March 2025}} These scholars argue that it is important to impartially assess the evidence in each criminal trial individually and that any generalization based on statistics would change the situation from one where the control of evidence makes false reporting difficult to one where lack of individual control of the alleged crime makes it easier to file false reports and that statistics collected in the former situation would not be possible to apply to the latter situation.{{cn|date=March 2025}} While the scholars make a distinction between actual victim blaming and [[rule by law]] that they consider to be falsely lumped with victim blaming in radical feminist rhetorics, they also advocate more protection from ad hominem questions to alleged victims about past life history and that the questions should focus on what is relevant for the specific alleged crime. They also cite examples that they consider to be cases of the horseshoe theory applied to the question of victim blaming. This includes cases in which psychologists who have testified on behalf of the prosecution in trials in which breast size have been used as a measure of female age when classifying pornographic cartoons as child pornography and been praised by feminists for it, and later the same psychologists have used the same psychological arguments when testifying on behalf of the defense in statutory rape cases and getting the defendant acquitted by claiming that the victim's breasts looked like those of an adult woman (considered by these scholars to be victim blaming based on appearance) and been praised by men's rights groups for it. It also includes the possibility that biopsychiatric models that consider sexual criminality hereditary and that are advocated by some feminists may blame victims of incest abuse for being genetically related to their abusers and thereby dissuading them from reporting abuse.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-kSUlHgB2m4C |title = Criminal Behavior: Theories, Typologies and Criminal Justice|isbn = 9781412904872|last1 = Helfgott|first1 = Jacqueline B.|date = 2008}}{{page needed|date=November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | doi=10.4324/9781315264868 | title=Restorative Justice: Ideals and Realities| year=2017| last1=Gavrielides| first1=Theo| isbn=9781315264868}}{{page needed|date=November 2019}}</ref>

Other analysts of victim blaming discourse who neither support most of the phenomena that are described as victim blaming nor most of the measures that are marketed as countermeasures against such point at the existence of other ways of discovering and punishing crimes with victims besides the victim reporting the crime. Not only are there police patrols and possible eyewitnesses, but these analysts also argue that neighbors can overhear and report crimes that take place within the house such as [[domestic violence]]. For that reason along with the possibility of many witnesses turning up over time if the crime is ongoing long term as domestic abuse is generally said to be which would make some of the witnesses likely to be considered believable, analysts of this camp of thought argue that the main problem that prevent crimes from being successfully prosecuted is [[offender profiling]] that disbelieve the capacity and/or probability of many criminals to commit the crime, rather than disbelief or blaming of victim reports.{{cn|date=March 2025}} These analysts cite international comparisons that show that the percentage of male on female cases in the statistics of successfully prosecuted domestic violence is not higher in countries that apply gender feminist theories about patriarchal structures than in countries that apply supposedly antifeminist evolutionary psychology profiling of sex differences in aggressiveness, impulse control and empathy, arguing that the criminal justice system prioritizing cases in which they believe the suspect most likely to be guilty makes evolutionary psychology at least as responsible as gender feminism for leaving domestic violence cases with female offenders undiscovered no matter if the victim is male or female. The analysts argue that many problems that are often attributed to victim blaming are instead due to offender profiling, and suggest randomized investigations instead of psychological profiling of suspected offenders.<ref>{{Cite book |first1=Patricia L. |last1=Brantingham|first2= Paul J.|last2= Brantingham |chapter=Notes on the Geometry of Crime| title=Principles of Geographical Offender Profiling| year=2017| editor-last1=Canter| editor-first1=David| isbn=9781315246086|orig-year=1981;1993|doi=10.4324/9781315246086}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis | hdl=10829/6873 |title = A Hopeful Rubicon: The Logic within Criminal Profiling|date = 2015-05-07|type = Thesis|last=Ward|first= Dakota James}}</ref>