SORVO Report

The Sexual Violence Prevention Association (SVPA) released a new framework – Systemic Oppression, Reverse Victim, and Offender (SORVO). SORVO describes how oppressive groups weaponize sexual violence, and accusations thereof, to justify systemic oppression. The SORVO framework enables the recognition and prevention of systemic injustice in action.

The SORVO Report outlines how oppressive groups reverse the roles of victim and offender by manipulating narratives to make it appear as though the oppressed group commits high rates of sexual violence. Meanwhile, oppressive groups refute or hide their own acts of sexual violence. By reversing the victim and offender of sexual violence, oppressive groups justify their control, surveillance, imprisonment, and/or genocide.