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...

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

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

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 them unconscious, then...

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

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...

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...

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

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

justice has rendered positive results for both victims and offenders,. Moreover, more recent studies have shown that academic performance falters in...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance (Romanian: Memorialul Victimelor Comunismului și al Rezistenței) in Romania consists of...

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

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...

euthanasia, and forced sterilization. The vast majority of the Nazi regime's victims were Jewish, Romani, or Slavic. Jews, along with some Romani populations...

services. Research about male-victim rape had only just begun to appear by 1980, focusing mostly on male children. The studies of sexual assault in correctional...

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...

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...

potential victim that attracted his attention. These contentions have been supported via an independent forensic specialists' study of Dahmer's victim selection...

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...