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  2. Victimology - Wikipedia

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    Victim facilitation, another controversial sub-topic, but a more accepted theory than victim proneness, finds its roots in the writings of criminologists such as Marvin Wolfgang. The choice to use victim facilitation as opposed to "victim proneness" or some other term is that victim facilitation is not blaming the victim, but rather the ...

  3. Theories of victimology - Wikipedia

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    The lifestyle/exposure theory is a model of victimology that posits that the likelihood an individual will suffer a personal victimization depends heavily upon the concept of lifestyle. Most victims are victimised at night. The lifestyle theory is constructed upon several premises. The most important of the premises are:

  4. Index of criminology articles - Wikipedia

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    vandalism – verbal abuse – verstehen – victim impact statement – victim-precipitated homicide – victim-pronenessvictim-witness assistance program – victimization rate – victimless crime – victimogenesis – victimology – violence – violent crime – VOCA – voluntary euthanasia – Juan Vucetich

  5. Victim mentality - Wikipedia

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    Victim mentality is a psychological concept referring to a mindset in which a person, or group of people, tends to recognize or consider themselves a victim of the actions of others. The term is also used in reference to the tendency for blaming one's misfortunes on somebody else's misdeeds, which is also referred to as victimism .

  6. Karpman drama triangle - Wikipedia

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    The Victim: The Victim in this model is not intended to represent an actual victim, but rather someone feeling or acting like one. [1] The Victim seeks to convince him or herself and others that he or she cannot do anything, nothing can be done, all attempts are futile, despite trying hard .

  7. Defensive attribution hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The defensive attribution hypothesis (or bias, theory, or simply defensive attribution) is a social psychological term where an observer attributes the causes for a mishap to minimize their fear of being a victim or a cause in a similar situation.

  8. Identifiable victim effect - Wikipedia

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    The identifiable victim effect disappears when a group of victims, rather than a single victim, is identified. [15] In a group of two or more victims, identifying every victim makes no difference. For example, a 2005 study by Kogut and Ritov [ 23 ] asked participants how much they would be willing to donate to either a critically ill child or a ...

  9. Victimisation - Wikipedia

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    Victimisation (or victimization) is the state or process of being victimised or becoming a victim. The field that studies the process, rates, incidence, effects, and prevalence of victimisation is called victimology .