crime victims
Those suffering harm
People who have suffered harm from criminal acts—physical injury, property loss, psychological trauma, or death.
The term encompasses direct victims and those indirectly affected, such as family members of murder victims.
Crime victims have the right to speak at sentencing hearings.
The phrase often appears in legal and advocacy contexts: crime victims' compensation fund, crime victims' rights.
- PTSDChronic reaction to horrific events
- victim compensationPayment to those harmed
- victim impact statementsTestimony about crime's effects
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- emotional scarsLasting harm from trauma
anxiety · resilience · counseling services · crisis hotlines · speak out · witness protection · safe house · anger · fear · survivor · legal aid · victimology · grief · victim blaming · shelters · restraining order · depression · restitution
- victimsvictim, casualty, survivors, fatality, casualties
- victim compensationvictim compensation, compensation claims, injury compensation, victim assistance, victim services
- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, guilty
- Vulnerable Groupshomeless youth, orphans, refugees, disabled people, elderly poor
crime victimsperpetrators
Those who commit wrongs
criminals · offenders · assailants · wrongdoers · attackers
crime victimsvictimizers
Those who harm others
abusers · predators · aggressors · exploiters · oppressors