When the Victim Becomes the Victimizer?

The Victim to Victimizer paradigm purports to explain the connection between being a victim of sexual abuse and becoming a perpetrator, attributing sexually abusive behavior to a predictable cycle of cognitive distortions and self-destructive and/or abusive behaviors.

Do victims become victimizers?

A history of being physically or sexually abused prior to age 16 years was reported by 38% of the subjects (51% women, 31% men). ... Fifteen percent of men and 18% of women were victimizers. Among persons who had never experienced any form of childhood abuse, 10% became victimizers (9% women, 11% men).

What is the difference between victim and victimizer?

As nouns the difference between victimizer and victim

is that victimizer is one who victimizes while victim is (original sense) a living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of christ in the eucharist.