By Jessica Copeland, Kristen Orazem and Meredith Strong
“So, whose fault is it, anyway?” In response to the two recent rapes in the Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill area that have received a lot of media attention, women are being told on a daily basis, via flyers posted by Public Safety and articles in the newspaper, what they can do to reduce their chances of becoming a victim. This explicitly puts the fault on the victim, instead of focusing on the perpetrator, where all the fault belongs.
