In his eyes, a stint as a Catholic policeman makes him victim not victimiser.

If we don't forgive we go from being the victim to the victimiser.

The victim, rather than the victimiser, becomes the hero.

I played the role of victimiser and victim and switched from one to the other frequently.

So nothing would make me happier than to find out he's a victim and not a victimiser.' '

First, the ability to attribute guilt or blame to the victimiser (and so cease to blame themselves).

If we see someone as a victim we have to be judging someone as a victimiser.

As Charlie, a highly distinguished Vietnam war veteran put it: "I have always been on the side of the victimiser.

Are we really being loving when we sympathise with victim or are we subtly attacking some victimiser?

Desisting in self-blame is presented as a kind of settling of accounts with the victimiser, but it is also future-oriented.

One of them, Ciro (Agrio) begins a correspondence with her after his conviction, as both victim and victimiser seek catharsis through artistic expression.

Azmi says, The best feedback I got for this role was that the audience cant make up their minds who the victim is and who the victimiser.

Our failure to laugh may be an indication that we, the audience, have come to side (or have been taught to side) with the victim rather than the victimiser.

If 'victims' proceed to 'invite' or 'allow' further victimisation, the flow of blame toward the victimiser is stymied somewhat, or might be stymied in certain legal contexts.

However, her actions in letting her emotions control her is similar to the actions that Paris, her betrayer, committed; she, like him, is a victimiser to herself.

"I wanted to find a way to portray a character whereby it is hard to decide whether she is a victim or a victimiser," Ben Asher told AFP in an interview.

There are some neat, if foreseeable, reversals – the hapless victim turns stalking victimiser who uses her weakness as a blackmailing weapon; Max's abrasive scorn increasingly looks like the mask of a man emotionally crippled by his background.

Primary among those expectations was that there was clearly a good community and a bad community, a victim and victimiser, and that the trouble must be caused by the Protestant residents who were ganging up on isolated Catholic families.

I can't say that even after studying A Course In Miracles for such a long time I have given up the desire to judge completely but the definition of who is the victim and who is the victimiser, has become blurred.

For President Obiang's regime, long considered one of the most corrupt and repressive in Africa, Mann's trial was a chance to turn the tables on its critics - to suggest that the tiny West African state was more victim than victimiser.

Indeed there is some correspondence between the relations of the victim/survivor, the victimiser and the deed of victimisation in feminist victim activist accounts and the relations of the (fictive) "doer", social norms and the "deed" in Butler's account.