Victim precipitation refers to the role or responsibility a victim has in his or her own victimization. In the first generation of theories of victimization and victimhood, the idea of ​​victim precipitation was studied and considered as part of the overall picture of a crime committed. As time went on it was not found to be such an important factor. Victim precipitation is divided into two different categories: victim facilitation and victim provocation. By victim facilitation we mean cases in which the victim has "facilitated" the crime by creating the opportunity, such as: walking at night in dangerous areas, going to the ATM and withdrawing large amounts of money at unsafe times or places, get drunk and decrease your ability to protect yourself. In all of these cases someone is more likely to be a target or victim because of a situation they put themselves in to make it easier to take advantage of. Victim provocation plays an even more active role in potential victimization. Provocation occurs when the victim openly entices or antagonizes his or her attacker. This could again go hand in hand with intoxication when someone provokes or pushes someone else's buttons to the point of resulting in violence from the second party. Marvin Wolfgang even believed that the precipitation of the victim was in some situations an extenuating circumstance in criminal homicide. Wolfgang provides a long list of real murders recorded by the Philadelphia police in which the victim was the primary aggressor and usually the initial aggressor, but ended up dying during the altercation with the other party. During the study that produced these examples Wolfgang found that 26% of homicides over a period of several years were attributed to v...... half of the paper ...... the specific group he was examining. The most important factor in what Amir reported were cases of victim precipitation was the use of alcohol. I think there is a difference between the terms victim blaming and victim blaming, but it's easy to blur these lines. Victim precipitation does not necessarily mean blaming the victim for the crime they were a victim of, but simply looking at how their actions influenced or provided the opportunity for the crime. In some crimes such as murder this can possibly be used as a mitigating circumstance for the offender. For example: if someone is the victim of a murder because he attacked another and was then killed while the other was defending himself, this would be a mitigating factor for the perpetrator. Victim blaming simply places the blame on the victim for what happened and comes across in a much more negative way.