A victimizer is someone who, with his or her actions, makes another living being a victim.
Victimizer is one who, through his or her actions, turns another living being into a victim (someone who suffers some type of damage due to the fault of another subject or due to a random situation). The ideas of perpetrator and victim, therefore, function in opposition.
For example: “While he was dying, the old man watched as his perpetrator calmly left the place” , “I will not allow this crime to go unpunished: the perpetrator will be judged to the fullest extent of the law ” , “The alleged perpetrator of two “Police officers were arrested last night at a train station.”
Victimizer and victim
It can be said that a murderer , a rapist or a batterer are all victimizers, since they generate victims (the individuals murdered, raped or beaten). In this way, the term can be used synonymously with these concepts according to the context.
Among the list of crimes that can generate this dynamic of perpetrator and victim is also pedophilia , and it is one of the most serious, since in this case the victims are minors. The RAE dictionary defines this word as an "erotic inclination" or "sexual abuse" that targets children; In any case, no academic meaning can express the nightmare that this aberration represents, which often destroys the lives of the victims forever.
An attacker is a victimizer.
The case of animals
One of the most interesting aspects of this term, from a semantic point of view, is that it is not always easy to recognize the signs that place each participant in a conflict in this role or in its opposite; The general tendency leads us to think that victims are always weaker than perpetrators, whether due to age, health or some other impediment, although this is not always true.
Animals, for example, are often victims of human lack of empathy, and many of them have more strength and skill than any of their victimizers: cows, pigs, horses and chickens who endure horrible lives on farms so that exploiters carry out food production, wild animals that become macabre trophies on hunters' walls, species that disappear from the planet due to environmental pollution; For unknown reasons, our Earthly companions allow this abuse to continue unrevealed, perhaps giving us a message of peace beyond our ability to understand .
When the alleged perpetrator has another role
Many times it is said that a subject went from perpetrator to victim or vice versa . This occurs when a situation that seemed to have developed in one way, in reality, took place in a very different way. Suppose that a woman denounces her ex-husband for gender violence : in this case, everything indicates that the woman is the victim and the man, her perpetrator. However, when Justice investigates, they discover that the woman had invented all the facts she reported to harm her husband. Thus, the woman becomes the victimizer of her ex-partner, who is the victim in this case.
In the same way, ignorance often leads us to overlook certain risk situations or crimes , such as violence by women towards men, since society insists on hiding them to continue defining women as "sex." weak".
The term in sport
In sports , the victimizer is usually called the player, athlete or team who, upon obtaining a victory or a certain success , transforms his rival into a victim: “Lionel Messi, once again, was the victimizer of Real Madrid by scoring three goals in the classic.”
The use of terms in contexts very different from what they should have by definition is common in the press, since it can generate a greater impact on the reader than absolutely technical and precise words.