• A victim study (or victimization survey or victimization study) is a survey, such as the British Crime Survey, that asks a sample of people which crimes...
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    Victimology (redirect from Crime victim)
    Victimology is the study of victimization, including the psychological effects on victims, the relationship between victims and offenders, the interactions...
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  • DARVO (an acronym for "deny, attack, reverse victim and offender") is a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, such as sexual offenders, may display...
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  • Victim mentality or victim complex is a psychological concept referring to a mindset in which a person, or group of people, tends to recognize or consider...
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    crimes that are reported, recorded, and not subsequently canceled; and victim study (victimization statistical surveys), which rely on individual memory...
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    them into believing he was an authority figure. He would then lure his victim to his vehicle, at which point he would bludgeon them unconscious, then...
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    Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm that befell them. There is historical...
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  • The identifiable victim effect is the tendency of individuals to offer greater aid when a specific, identifiable person ("victim") is observed under hardship...
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    torture his captive before killing his victim by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a garrote. Twenty-six victims were buried in the crawl space of...
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  • Playing the victim (also known as victim playing, victim card, or self-victimization) is the percived fabrication or exaggeration of victimhood for a variety...
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  • Victim is a 1961 British neo-noir suspense film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. The first British film to explicitly...
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  • The 10th Victim (Italian: La decima vittima) is a 1965 science fiction film directed and co-written by Elio Petri, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula...
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    Bill Clinton formally apologized on behalf of the United States to victims of the study, calling it shameful and racist. "What was done cannot be undone...
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    makes offenders less likely to re-offend. A 2007 study also found that it had a higher rate of victim satisfaction and offender accountability than traditional...
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    referred to as "hard vore",[better source needed] because the soft vore victim is normally swallowed alive and whole. The word vorarephilia is derived...
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    and Wales (previously called the British Crime Survey) is a systematic victim study, currently carried out by Verian (formally known as Kantar Public) on...
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    In genocide studies, perpetrators, victims, and bystanders is an evolving typology for classifying the participants and observers of a genocide. The typology...
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  • Victim feminism is a term that has been used by some conservative postfeminist writers such as Katie Roiphe and Naomi Wolf to critique forms of feminist...
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  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often shortened to Law & Order: SVU or SVU) is an American police procedural crime drama television series created...
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    reported knowing victims of rape, and in one study over half reported knowing perpetrators of sexual assault; one in ten reported knowing a victim of rape; and...
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  • serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number of victims, then possible victims, then date. For those from previous centuries, see List of serial...
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  • affects the victim (survivor) in a physical, psychological, and sociological way. Even though the effects and aftermath of rape differ among victims, individuals...
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  • Crime (section Victim)
    the study of victims, including their role in crime and how they are affected. Several factors affect an individual's likelihood of becoming a victim. Some...
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  • of abuse. A trauma bond occurs in an abusive relationship, wherein the victim forms an emotional bond with the perpetrator. The concept was developed...
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  • A complex victim is someone who was victimized, but does not fit the requirement of being an "ideal victim" because they are morally compromised in some...
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    The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance (Romanian: Memorialul Victimelor Comunismului și al Rezistenței) in Romania consists of...
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  • lowest percentage in the study. And while only 11.8% of men and 10.2% of women surveyed approved of generally blaming the victim, 53.7% and 53.5% of each...
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    buried eighteen of their victims in a rented boat shed; four other victims were buried in woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn, one victim was buried on a beach...
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    recorded statistics. The British Crime Survey or BCS is a systematic victim study, currently carried out by BMRB Limited on behalf of the Home Office....
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  • euthanasia, and forced sterilization. The vast majority of the Nazi regime's victims were Jewish, Romani, or Slavic. Jews, along with some Romani populations...
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