The action of singling someone out for cruel or unjust treatment.
we should be able to speak up without fear of victimization
her plots frequently portray the victimization of women
count noun approximately 54 percent of violent victimizations are not reported to the police
Example sentencesExamples
- He reproduces that fundamental conflict between power and victimization underlying the social identity Wilde had come to inhabit.
- Rates of violent victimizations began to increase sharply late in the 1980s, with peaks occurring in 1992 and 1993.
- It is the story of their forced migration and victimisation.
- Their airs of passivity and wearied victimization are part of their obsessive rerunning of the past.
- Both novels focus on the desolation of a family trapped in the quagmire of poverty, victimization, and oppression in the Harlem ghetto.