Scapegoat (disambiguation)

A scapegoat is a person unfairly blamed for some misfortune.

Scapegoat or The Scapegoat may also refer to:

• Scapegoating, the practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame as a scapegoat
• An actual goat used in a Jewish Azazel ritual

Places

• Scapegoat Wilderness, a Wilderness Area in Montana
  • Scapegoat Mountain, a mountain in the Scapegoat Wilderness
• Scapegoat Hill, a small village in Yorkshire, England

Literature

• The Scapegoat, translated work by Arvid Paulson from August Strindberg's Syndabocken
• "The Scapegoat", a study of collective violence by René Girard
• The Scapegoat (Du Maurier novel), a 1957 novel by Daphne du Maurier
• Scapegoat, an investigation into the trial of Richard Hauptmann
• Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation, a 2000 book by Andrea Dworkin
• "The Scapegoat" (Cherryh novel), a 1985 novella by science fiction writer C. J. Cherryh
• The Scapegoat, a novel by Hall Caine

Film, television and radio drama

• The Scapegoat (1912 film), American film
• The Scapegoat, 1914 short film starring Tom Mix
• The Scapegoat (1917 film), 1917 Frederick Douglass Film Company production of a story by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• The Scapegoat (1959 film), adaptation of the du Maurier novel, starring Alec Guinness and Bette Davis
• The Scapegoat (2009): a film by BBC Ireland about the murder of Patricia Curran, daughter of Lancelot Curran in 1952.
• The Scapegoat (2011 film), Turkish film
• The Scapegoat (2012 film), British film, remake of the du Maurier novel
• The Scapegoat (2013 film), French film
• The Scapegoat (audio drama), Doctor Who audio drama

Music

• Scapegoat Wax, a hip hop/rap/breakbeat band
• Scapegoat (band), a rock group based in Charlotte, North Carolina
• Scapegoat, a 2008 album by Josh Abbott Band

Songs

• Scapegoat (D'banj song), 2010
• "Scapegoat", a song by Sevendust from the album Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow
• "Scapegoat", a song by Atmosphere from the EP Overcast!
• "Scapegoat", a song by Guano Apes from the album Proud Like a God
• "Scapegoat", a song by Chumbawamba from the album Tubthumper
• "Scapegoat", a song by Fear Factory from the album Soul of a New Machine
• "Scapegoat", a song by Fad Gadget from the album Under the Flag
• "Scapegoat", a song by Love and Money
• "Scapegoat", a song by Downthesun
• "Scapegoats", a song by Christy Moore about the Birmingham Six

Other uses

• The Scapegoat (painting), by William Holman Hunt
• SS-14 Scapegoat, a Soviet ballistic missile
• Scapegoat tree, a binary search tree used in computer science