noun
definition
An act that victimizes or exploits someone.
definition
Adversity as a result of being a victim.
Examples of victimization in a Sentence
Rejection or victimization by peers may become a source of significant stress to children, contributing to feelings of loneliness and low self-esteem.
Children need to be warned about the potential dangers online and about sexual victimization.
Girl gang members experience more long-term, harmful effects from gang membership than their male counterparts, and some research finds that "gang membership itself opened up young women to additional victimization risk."
The private, nonprofit National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) was established in cooperation with the United States Department of Justice, to find missing children and prevent child victimization.
Among sixth-grade students, rates of bullying rose from 10.5 percent in 1999 to 14.3 percent in 2001; among eighth-grade students victimization by bullies went from 5.5 percent in 1999 to 9.2 percent in 2001.
One study found that white victimization was the result of ethnic minorities ' resistance to racial abuse linked to territorial dominance.
The British Public Interest Disclosure Act was passed in 1998 to protect whistle-blowers from dismissal and victimization.
The WSU forms an important part of the MARAC process which has had impressive outcomes in reducing repeat victimization for very high risk survivors.
The objective is to prevent the victimization of senior citizens and improve the law enforcement agencies' response and action in the event of a crime.
In 1988, AARP, The National Sheriff's Association, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police banded together to not only reduce criminal victimization affecting seniors, but also to quell their fear of crime.
It defines a child's ability to establish and maintain high quality and mutually satisfying relationships and to avoid negative treatment or victimization from others.
After victimization in consequence of a strike he obtained work at Cumnock, Ayrshire, and was shortly afterwards elected secretary of the Ayrshire Miners' Association.