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In order to understand the essence of the crime, two issues have to be taken into account: not only do we analyse features of the perpetrator, but also the victim's behaviour. Both measures have to be recognised in the light of their mutual relations. In such a case, victimology is instrumental for criminology. it answers the fundamental question: who and why becomes a victim of a crime? It is victimology...