There is a similar discussion going on in another forum just now. There seems to have been a general understanding that everything is causal and that putting yourself in a situation of higher risk brings responsibility for the effected action with it. That at least the perception of a person by others is affected in the way one naturally expects seems to be underpinned in the following experiment.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...ahoo.com&purchase_site_license=LICENSE_DENIED
The question would be, whether there are factors that increase the probability of rape. It seems intuitively plausible that there be such. Alcohol, dress etc come to mind.
I only did a quickie, but the search revealed very little literature of substance. Here is an abstract of one of the papers that does indicate that there are correlations that support the hypothesis that the behavior of the victim influences the level of risk. It is not large enough to be robust and is based only on a sample without control group. But it is something:
"Antecedents of sexual victimization: factors discriminating victims from nonvictims.
Synovitz LB1, Byrne TJ.
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A sexual victimization survey was used to assess the factors that would discriminate between victims and nonvictims of sexual assault. The sample consisted of 241 female college students at a large midwestern university. Victimization status was ascertained from the 13-question Sexual Experiences Survey developed by Koss and Gidycz and Koss and Oros. Data eliciting information about possible associated factors (demographics, dating history, sexual history, personality characteristics and traits) and victimization status were obtained by adapting several scales and instruments into a single Dating and Relationship Survey. Of the 241 women, 102 reported they had been victimized. Discriminant function analysis was used to develop a set of variables that significantly identified victimization status. The variables found to be related to women's being sexually victimized were (a) number of different lifetime sexual partners, (b) provocative dress, and (c) alcohol use."