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a) risk and vulnerability;

b) resistance and recovery;

c) types of crime and abuse of power.

Apart from these typologies, in ssss1 we will refer to different victimisation processes according to time and duration, as well as to persons being affected.

The notion of victim risk can run parallel to the idea of violence risk and protective factors. Hence we can apply it from a victim, offender or community perspective. Victim risk should be mainly understood before the crime, as the inequality in the distribution of the possibility or chance to become a victim of a certain crime. In this text, victim vulnerability refers to another moment; the inequality of the impact of the crime, once committed, that is, the different degree of capability of being materially, physically or emotionally wounded.

Notwithstanding hidden victimisation, according to various studies (Lauritsen and Rezey, 2018; Wiedlitzka, 2020), people at higher risk for violent victimisation are likely to be young, male, unmarried, with low or middle levels of income and from minority group backgrounds (ethnic minorities, LGBTI communities, people with disabilities, (un)documented immigrants, homeless etc.). The higher risk might also correspond to higher vulnerability.