Victim Facilitation Victim Precipitation

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When reviewing the differences between victim facilitation, victim precipitation, and victim provocation, it appears as though the victim is unjustly being described as a party to a crime. Ordinarily, the majority of people differentiate a victim and a perpetrator, regardless of the end result, but the classifications lump them both together, which is unjust to most.

Nevertheless, in researching each of them, clearly, there is somewhat of a caveat to all, and an attempt to provide justification for them. Accordingly, I have categorized each and given an example of a situation to illustrate their differences more clearly, and they are as follows:

1. Victim Facilitation is a term used the describe the actions of the victim

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