Primacy of Victimology

There's a lot of talk about remembering the victims, recognizing who they were and how they lived, and putting them first in the discourse. One way to do that, I think, is to promote the notion of Primacy of Victimology.


Victimology, branch of criminology that scientifically studies the relationship between an injured party and an offender by examining the causes and the nature of the consequent suffering.  Specifically, victimology focuses on whether the perpetrators were complete strangers, mere acquaintances, friends, family members, or even intimates and why a particular person or place was targeted. Criminalvictimization may inflict economic costs, physical injuries, and psychological harm.

Victimology first emerged in the 1940s and ’50s, when several criminologists (notably Hans von Hentig, Benjamin Mendelsohn, and Henri Ellenberger) examined victim-offender interactions and stressed reciprocal influences and role reversals. These pioneers raised the possibility that certain individuals who suffered wounds and losses might share some degree of responsibility with the lawbreakers for their own misfortunes. For example, the carelessness of some motorists made the tasks of thieves easier... Britannica.com


Primacy of Victimology
 
Victimology (victim type) here is shown to have primacy over modus operandi in developing the foundation of a serial killer profile.
 
And don't forget its derivation
 
Consciousness Theory
 
This is the theory that you are what you think and you do unto whom you think about, not just because you have a motive to hurt or benefit them but because you are hurtful or benevolent and they are your primary object of consciousness or close to primary.*
 

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance. Let any thought or motive of mine be different from that they are, the difference will transform my condition and economy. I – this thought which is called I, – is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. The mould is invisible, but the world betrays the shape of the mould. 

 
 
*Not to be confused with Theories of Consciousness which are thoughts on the properties of mental self-awareness.

Primacy of Victimology, Nietzchean Reflective Profiling, and the William Wilson Effect.

It doesn't matter if you're a victim or a victimizer. In fact, Primacy of Victimology sees a co-relationship between murder victim and killer. 


It's just like in the Edgar Allen Poe story, William Wilson. He was his own enemy. He was his own victim. Victim and enemy were one. 


It doesn't happen every time with every victim. Sometimes there is no one-to-one comparison. But there's almost always one victim who gives his or her killer away. Sometimes it's a surviving victim.

https://victorianripper.forumotion.com/t2467p25-the-murder-of-edgar-allan-poe

Profiling Scenario:
 
Two people kill two people with the same weapon or method. The crime scenes are the same except for the victim.
 
One victims is a prostitute. One victim is a president.
 
Are the profiles the same?
 
 
M.O. is exactly the same. Same weapon. Same method exactly. Victim's are opposites. One is a president. One is a whore. Her identity is known and she's just a regular typical person in the sex trade, nothing notable about her background. But you can make a distinction as to high class call girl or common street prostitute.
 
Are the killers inherently different? How are they different? Marginally? Totally? Diametrically? Unknown?
 
Primacy of Victimology only stands if it stands in the most extremely opposing cases. Else it falls.