Victim Rushing refers to the role or responsibility a victim has in their own victimization. In the first generation of victimization theories and victimologists, the idea of ​​victim precipitation was studied and considered as part of the overall picture of a crime being committed. Over time, this factor was no longer considered to be an important factor. Victim rushing is divided into two different categories: victim facilitation and victim provocation. Victim facilitation is where the victim “facilitated” the crime by creating an opportunity, for example: walking late at night in dangerous areas, going to the ATM and withdrawing large sums of money from dangerous times or places, become intoxicated and diminish one's own ability to protect oneself. In all of these cases, someone is more easily a target or victim because of a situation they put themselves in, making it easier to take advantage of. Victim provocation plays an even more active role in potential victimization. Provocation occurs when the victim openly attracts or antagonizes their attacker. This could still be accompanied by drunkenness when someone provokes or pushes someone else's buttons to the point of provoking violence from the other party. Marvin Wolfgang even believed that the victim's haste was a mitigating factor in criminal homicide in certain situations. Wolfgang gives a long list of actual homicides recorded by Philadelphia police where 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 percent of homicides over a period of years involved the specific group he was studying. The most significant factor in what Amir called a victim rush case was alcohol consumption. I think there's a difference between the term victim rush and victim blaming, but it's easy to blur those lines. Victim rush is not necessarily blaming the victim for the crime they suffered, but simply examining how their actions influenced or provided the opportunity to commit the crime. In some crimes such as homicide, this can potentially be used as a mitigating factor for the offender. For example: if a person is the victim of homicide because he attacked another and was then killed while the second person was defending himself, this would constitute a mitigating circumstance for the aggressor. Blaming the victim only blames the victim for what happened and it seems much more negative..