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victimize

To commit a crime against a person or household... Read More

victims’ rights

Legally established rights, privileges, and protections for persons who are victims of crime... Read More

Victims of Crime Act (VOCA)

A federal act passed in 1984 that funds victim services through fines and fees levied against federal criminal offenders... Read More

Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000

Public Law 106-386 (Act of 10/28/2000), enacted to combat trafficking in persons, especially into the sex trade, slavery, and involuntary servitude, and to reauthorize certain Federal programs to prevent violence against immigrant women and children... Read More

victims with disabilities

Victims of crime who have a physical or mental disability... Read More

Victorian Household

A D/s or M/s relationship style modeled after the social hierarchy, particularly the authority dynamics, found in Victorian England... Read More

vidrio

Street name, slang, or code word for heroin... Read More

vignetting

A term referring to the underexposure of the outermost edges of an image... Read More

vikes

Street, slang, or code word for hydrocodone... Read More

violence

The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation... Read More

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