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Victimisation, the Glossary

Victimisation (or victimization) is the state or process of being victimised or becoming a victim.^[1]

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Victimology

Abuse

Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of a person or thing, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit.

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Aggression

Aggression is a behavior aimed at opposing or attacking something or someone.

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Ann M. O'Leary (born 1971) is an American political advisor, attorney, and nonprofit leader, who served as Chief of Staff to California Governor Gavin Newsom and as co-chair of the Governor's Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery.

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Antisocial behaviours, sometimes called dissocial behaviours, are actions which are considered to violate the rights of or otherwise harm others by committing crime or nuisance, such as stealing and physical attack or noncriminal behaviours such as lying and manipulation. Victimisation and Anti-social behaviour are abuse.

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Apparent death

Apparent death is a behavior in which animals take on the appearance of being dead.

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Assault

An assault is the illegal act of causing physical harm or unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt to do so.

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Attention seeking

Attention seeking behavior is to act in a way that is likely to elicit attention.

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Blame

Blame is the act of censuring, holding responsible, or making negative statements about an individual or group that their actions or inaction are socially or morally irresponsible, the opposite of praise.

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Bullying

Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. Victimisation and Bullying are abuse and Harassment and bullying.

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Bureau of Justice Statistics

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (UJC) of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring crime, criminal victimization, criminal offenders, victims of crime, correlates of crime, and the operation of criminal and civil justice systems at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels.

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Colonial mentality

A colonial mentality is an internalized ethnic, linguistic, or cultural inferiority complex felt by people as a result of colonization, i.e. being colonized by another people and gaslit into assimilationNunning, Vera.

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Coping

Coping refers to conscious or unconscious strategies used to reduce unpleasant emotions.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Date rape

Date rape is a form of acquaintance rape and dating violence.

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Dehumanization

Dehumanization is the denial of full humanity in others along with the cruelty and suffering that accompany it. Victimisation and Dehumanization are abuse and Harassment and bullying.

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Demographics of Kazakhstan

The demographics of Kazakhstan enumerate the demographic features of the population of Kazakhstan, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.

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Depression (mood)

Depression is a mental state of low mood and aversion to activity.

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Destabilisation

The word destabilisation (alternatively, destabilization) can be applied to a wide variety of contexts such as attempts to undermine political, military or economic power. Victimisation and destabilisation are Harassment and bullying.

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Domestic violence

Domestic violence is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation. Victimisation and domestic violence are abuse.

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Ethnic nationalism

Ethnic nationalism, also known as ethnonationalism, is a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, with emphasis on an ethnocentric (and in some cases an ethnocratic) approach to various political issues related to national affirmation of a particular ethnic group.

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Fight-or-flight response

The fight-or-flight or the fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn (also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.

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Freezing behavior

Freezing behavior, also called the freeze response or being petrified, is a reaction to specific stimuli, most commonly observed in prey animals.

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Frontier justice

Frontier justice is extrajudicial punishment that is motivated by the nonexistence of law and order or dissatisfaction with judicial punishment.

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Guilt (emotion)

Guilt is a moral emotion that occurs when a person believes or realizes—accurately or not—that they have compromised their own standards of conduct or have violated universal moral standards and bear significant responsibility for that violation.

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Happy victimizing

Happy victimizing phenomenon, happy victimization phenomenon or happy victimizer phenomenon is a phenomenon in child development, in particular, in their moral development and cognitive development. Victimisation and happy victimizing are abuse, Harassment and bullying and Victimology.

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International Crime Victims Survey

The International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS) is a large scale international survey project about crime and victimization.

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Just-world fallacy

The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily have morally fair and fitting consequences for the actor. Victimisation and just-world fallacy are abuse.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

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Learned helplessness

Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control.

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Learning theory (education)

Learning theory describes how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning.

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Manipulation (psychology)

In psychology, manipulation is defined as subterfuge designed to influence or control another, usually in an underhanded manner which facilitates one's personal aims.

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Marat Tajin

Marat Mukhanbetkazyuly Tajin (Марат Мұханбетқазыұлы Тәжин, Marat Mūhanbetqazyūly Täjin; born 8 April 1960) is a Kazakh politician.

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Minimisation (psychology)

Minimisation or minimization is a type of deceptionGuerrero, L., Anderson, P., Afifi, W. (2007).

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Mobbing

Mobbing, as a sociological term, refers either to bullying in any context, or specifically to that within the workplace, especially when perpetrated by a group rather than an individual. Victimisation and Mobbing are abuse and Harassment and bullying.

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National Crime Victimization Survey

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), administered by the US Census Bureau under the Department of Commerce, is a national survey of approximately 49,000 to 150,000 households - with approximately 240,000 persons aged 12 or older - twice a year in the United States, on the frequency of crime victimization, as well as characteristics and consequences of victimization.

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National Institute of Justice

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).

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Nordic Journal of Criminology

The Nordic Journal of Criminology (abbreviated NJC) is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of criminology.

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Pessimism

Pessimism is a mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation.

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Playing the victim

Playing the victim (also known as victim playing, victim card, or self-victimization) is the fabrication or exaggeration of victimhood for a variety of reasons such as to justify abuse to others, to manipulate others, a coping strategy, attention seeking or diffusion of responsibility. Victimisation and playing the victim are abuse, Harassment and bullying and Victimology.

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Police officer

A police officer (also called a policeman (male) or policewoman (female), a cop, an officer, or less commonly a constable) is a warranted law employee of a police force.

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Post-assault treatment of sexual assault victims

After a sexual assault or rape, victims are often subjected to scrutiny and, in some cases, mistreatment. Victimisation and Post-assault treatment of sexual assault victims are abuse.

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Public criminology

Public criminology is an approach to criminology that disseminates criminological research beyond academia to broader audiences, such as criminal justice practitioners and the general public.

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Race card

"Playing the race card" is an idiomatic phrase that refers to the exploitation by someone of either racist or anti-racist attitudes in the audience in order to gain an advantage.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.

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Rationalization (psychology)

Rationalization is a defense mechanism (ego defense) in which apparent logical reasons are given to justify behavior that is motivated by unconscious instinctual impulses.

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Robbery

Robbery (from Old French rober ("to steal, ransack, etc."), from Proto-West Germanic *rauba ("booty")) is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by use of fear.

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Scapegoating

Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and consequent negative treatment. Victimisation and Scapegoating are abuse.

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Self-image

Self-image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to an objective investigation by others (height, weight, hair color, etc.), but also items that have been learned by persons about themselves, either from personal experiences or by internalizing the judgments of others.

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Shame

Shame is an unpleasant self-conscious emotion often associated with negative self-evaluation; motivation to quit; and feelings of pain, exposure, distrust, powerlessness, and worthlessness.

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Symptoms of victimization

Victimization refers to a person being made into a victim by someone else and can take on psychological as well as physical forms, both of which are damaging to victims. Victimisation and Symptoms of victimization are abuse, Harassment and bullying and Victimology.

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Theft

Theft is the act of taking another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.

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Uniform Crime Reports

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program compiles official data on crime in the United States, published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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United Kingdom employment equality law

United Kingdom employment equality law is a body of law which legislates against prejudice-based actions in the workplace.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Victim blaming

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. Victimisation and victim blaming are Harassment and bullying and Victimology.

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Victimology

Victimology is the study of victimization, including the psychological effects on victims, the relationship between victims and offenders, the interactions between victims and the criminal justice system—that is, the police and courts, and corrections officials—and the connections between victims and other social groups and institutions, such as the media, businesses, and social movements.

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Violent crime

A violent crime, violent felony, crime of violence or crime of a violent nature is a crime in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use harmful force upon a victim.

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Well-being

Well-being, or wellbeing, also known as wellness, prudential value, prosperity or quality of life, is what is intrinsically valuable relative to someone.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victimisation

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