Complex victim

Not to be confused with Victim complex.

A complex victim is someone who, although they were victimized, does not fit the requirement of being an "ideal victim" because they are morally compromised in some respect or partially responsible for their own victimization.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Their victimhood nature is usually influenced by social, political, and historical factors, that often involves the complexities of power, responsibility, and identity.[7]People who are complex victims are usually responsible for making others victim, while also been unlawfully victimized.[5]

  1. ^ Jankowitz, Sarah E. (2018). "The Social Construction of Victimhood and Complex Victims". The Order of Victimhood: Violence, Hierarchy and Building Peace in Northern Ireland. Springer International Publishing. pp. 69–96. ISBN 978-3-319-98328-8.
  2. ^ Baines, Erin (2017). Buried in the Heart: Women, Complex Victimhood and the War in Northern Uganda. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-13712-7.
  3. ^ Bouris, Erica (2007). Complex Political Victims. Kumarian Press. ISBN 978-1-56549-232-5.
  4. ^ Swain, Shurlee (2018). "Both Victim and 'Perpetrator': Finding a Voice before Inquiries into Historical Abuse in Out-of-Home Care". International Journal of Transitional Justice. 12 (3): 464–478. doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijy015.
  5. ^ a b Moffett, Luke (2016). "Reparations for 'Guilty Victims': Navigating Complex Identities of Victim–Perpetrators in Reparation Mechanisms" (PDF). International Journal of Transitional Justice. 10 (1): 146–167. doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijv030.
  6. ^ Tapia Navarro, Nadia (2018). "A stubborn victim of mass atrocity: The peace community of San José de Apartadó". The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. 50 (2): 188–212. doi:10.1080/07329113.2018.1485090.
  7. ^ McGrattan, Cillian (2019-07-03). "The order of victimhood: violence, hierarchy and building peace in Northern Ireland: by Sarah E. Jankowitz, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, Pages 1-218, €80.24 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-319-98328-8". Irish Political Studies. 34 (3): 464–465. doi:10.1080/07907184.2019.1568366. ISSN 0790-7184.