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...

Victimology is the study of victimization, including the psychological effects on victims, the relationship between victims and offenders, the interactions...

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...

crimes that are reported, recorded, and not subsequently canceled; and victim study (victimization statistical surveys), which rely on individual memory...

DARVO (an acronym for "deny, attack, reverse victim and offender") is a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, such as sexual offenders, may display...

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...

them into believing he was an authority figure. He would then lure his victim to his vehicle, at which point he would bludgeon her unconscious, then restrain...

The identifiable victim effect is the tendency of individuals to offer greater aid when a specific, identifiable person ("victim") is observed under hardship...

Playing the victim (also known as victim playing, victim card, or self-victimization) is the fabrication or exaggeration of victimhood for a variety of...

and Wales (previously called the British Crime Survey) is a systematic victim study, currently carried out by Verian (formally known as Kantar Public) on...

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...

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...

The 10th Victim (Italian: La decima vittima) is a 1965 science fiction film directed and co-written by Elio Petri, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula...

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often shortened to Law & Order: SVU or SVU) is an American police procedural crime drama television series created...

affects the victim (survivor) in a physical, psychological, and sociological way. Even though the effects and aftermath of rape differ among victims, individuals...

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...

Word" (PDF). Europe-Asia Studies. 51 (2): 340–342. doi:10.1080/09668139999056. For decades, many historians counted Stalin' s victims in 'tens of millions'...

referred to as "hard vore",[better source needed] because the soft vore victim is normally swallowed alive and whole. The word vorarephilia is derived...

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...

In genocide studies, perpetrators, victims, and bystanders is an evolving typology for classifying the participants and observers of a genocide. The typology...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

knowledge of the victim. A common crime in many places in the world, carjacking has been the subject of legislative responses, criminology studies, prevention...

derogate the victim. Lerner and colleagues replicated these findings in subsequent studies, as did other researchers. To explain these studies' findings...

interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them. The term stalking is used with some differing...

As with crime statistics elsewhere, they are broadly divided into victim studies and police statistics. More recently, third-party reporting is used...

of abuse. A trauma bond occurs in an abusive relationship, wherein the victim forms an emotional bond with the perpetrator. The concept was developed...