victimologyn.
The study of the victims of crime, esp. of the psychological effects on them of their experience.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > study of victims of crime
victimology1958
1958 New Statesman 5 July 6/1 We ought to establish a new science of victimology with chairs at the universities, field workers studying the effects rather than the causes of crime, and a special department assessing the impact of sex-crime on women.
1964 Economist 1 Feb. 417/1 ‘Victimology’, an unusual aspect of the sociology of murder.
1978 Practitioner Feb. 301/1 Any one of these fields of study—stress, coping, captivity, victimology—is a springboard for analysing the particular plight of the victim of terrorism.
Derivatives
victiˈmologist n.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > study of victims of crime > one who
victimologist1971
1971 Time 5 July 46 Some victimologists contend that rape victims invite attack.
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