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To talk and think meaningfully of victims, apart from some metaphorical uses of the concept—as in “Harry Brown, 68, A Victim of Cancer,” a possible obituary title—implies acknowledgment of culpability on the part of people for certain actions. The existence of genuine victims implies culpable perpetrators of wrongful injurious conduct.
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Machan, T.R. (1991). Rescuing Victims—from Social Theory. In: Sank, D., Caplan, D.I. (eds) To Be a Victim. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5974-4_7
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