Victims of crime and other negative events can sometimes become targets of hostility and blame, where others assume they must have deserved or brought on the misfortune. For example, they might ...

There are many sad and discouraging aspects of the downtown "brawl," but maybe the most repugnant is the victim-blaming (which, according to the prosecutor who has seen all the evidence, is not true) ...

Dee Devlin issued a statement on Instagram on Tuesday, November 26 defending her longtime fiancé Conor McGregor, the Irish sports star who a jury found assaulted Nikita Hand in a Dublin hotel in ...

“The IRS will not call you on the phone.” “Your bank will not ask you for your social security number on a call they initiated.” “The police will not call you if there is a warrant out for your arrest ...

Editor's note: This column is written by the victim of Kalvin Chester Bailey Husted of Albany, who sexually abused her starting when she was around 13. He was sentenced in January to more than 20 ...

Shame is common among financial fraud victims, making it all the more important not to inject blame into the mix. (Illustration by Roche Cruchon for The Washington ...

The father of a 17-year-old boy stabbed in the heart with his own knife during a clash over a “dirty look” in a West Village subway station has sharply different views on who is to blame for the ...