ABSTRACT
The victimologists also seek to understand what conditions lead people to be selected by the victimizers, for at on time is it implied that all victims choose their role or that victims alone determine their roles, even when they do play some part in inviting the attack. This chapter discusses the other side of human violence, the victim, and the extent to which the victim contributes to his or her own tragedy. It examines the cruel and insulting to call down on victims a further burden of incompetence and shame by suggesting that they bring injury and death to themselves. S. M. Silverman has emphasized that an adequate model for understanding genocide requires recognition of the interrelationship of victimizer and victim. Victims need the courage to give up the secret gratifications of martyrdom and self-righteousness and to break out of the cowardice of appeasement and fusion with others.
