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INDIRECT VICTIM [7 records]

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Record 1 2026-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Penal Law
  • Aboriginal Law
CONT

[An] alternative to face-to-face mediation is indirect mediation where the victim and offender do not meet, perhaps because the victim is not willing to speak directly to the offender...

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit pénal
  • Droit autochtone
OBS

médiation indirecte : désignation normalisée par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Civil Liability (civil law)
CONT

The indirect victim is someone who suffers an autonomous injury after the commission of a fault, where the damage suffered was the logical, direct and immediate result of the fault. This is contrasted with indirect damage where the damage itself is indirect because its source is not the immediate fault.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la responsabilité civile (droit civil)
CONT

Comme on le sait, la jurisprudence respecte le critère du caractère direct du dommage édicté par le législateur. Le problème de déterminer ce que constitue un dommage «direct» est complexe et, là encore, il serait présomptueux de vouloir généraliser. Toutefois, une tendance se dégage. Les tribunaux ne reconnaissent pas le préjudice qui puise sa source immédiate non dans la faute elle-même, mais dans un autre préjudice déjà causé par la faute. En d'autres termes, est indirect le dommage issu du dommage, le dommage par ricochet, le dommage au «second degré».

OBS

Le dommage par ricochet n'est pas indemnisable en droit civil québécois.

Spanish

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Record 3 2025-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Civil Liability (civil law)
CONT

The indirect victim is someone who suffers an autonomous injury after the commission of a fault, where the damage suffered was the logical, direct and immediate result of the fault. This is contrasted with indirect damage where the damage itself is indirect because its source is not the immediate fault.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la responsabilité civile (droit civil)
CONT

[...] mais il y a aussi les victimes par ricochet qui n'ont pas subi d'atteinte à leur intégrité physique, donc pas de dommage corporel propre malgré l'expression classique de «dommage par ricochet», mais qui néan­moins subissent des «préjudices par ricochet» pour lesquels elles sont indemnisables [...]

Spanish

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Record 4 2024-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys
  • Criminology
CONT

... four categories of victims can be identified based on the one's emotional or psychological proximity to the victimization : 1) direct victims 2) indirect victims 3) secondary victims and 4) tertiary victims. The direct victim is the person who is unlawfully killed, disappeared, injured, assaulted, robbed, tortured, et cetera. Indirect victims are those who are linked to direct victims in such a way that they too suffer as a result of that relationship, such as family members of the direct victim. Secondary victims are persons who have suffered harm in intervening to assist victims in distress or witnessed the victimization. Tertiary victims refer to community members. All of these different groups of victims can suffer trauma and many other consequences as a result of the victimization...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
  • Criminologie
CONT

[...] quatre catégories de victimes peuvent être identifiées en fonction de leur proximité émotionnelle ou psychologique avec la victimisation : 1) les victimes directes 2) les victimes indirectes 3) les victimes secondaires et 4) les victimes tertiaires. La victime directe est la personne qui est illégalement tuée, portée disparue, blessée, agressée, volée, torturée, etc. Les victimes indirectes sont celles qui sont liées aux victimes directes de telle manière qu'elles souffrent elles aussi du fait de cette relation, comme les membres de la famille de la victime directe. Les victimes secondaires sont les personnes qui ont subi un préjudice en intervenant pour aider des victimes en détresse ou qui ont été témoins de la victimisation. Les victimes tertiaires sont les membres de la communauté. Tous ces différents groupes de victimes peuvent souffrir de traumatismes et de nombreuses autres conséquences à la suite de la victimisation [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 2020-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminology
  • Social Problems
DEF

A person who is a family member of [the direct victim] or who is emotionally close to the direct victim.

CONT

An indirect victim has been harmed as a result of the harm done to the direct victim.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Criminologie
  • Problèmes sociaux
DEF

Personne qui est un membre de la famille ou qui est émotionnellement proche de la victime directe.

Spanish

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Record 6 2010-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

... a husband incurs household and medical expenses consequent upon his wife being injured in a road collision. Such loss is an indirect and unintended secondary consequence of the defendant's tort against his primary victim, the wife.

OBS

Members of self-help groups include primary victims of an offence and secondary victims such as family members.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
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Record 7 2003-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Security
  • Psychological Warfare
CONT

Terrorism, unlike guerrilla warfare, does not attack military or government centers with the desire to take power. Rather terrorism targets unsuspecting victims to publicize their cause and create panic among the strong. The terrorist hopes that by randomly attacking "off limit" targets, it will create a fear so intolerable that despite power the victim will surrender to the terrorists’ demands. Thus, terrorism is an indirect strategy to accomplish direct and specific goals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
  • Guerre psychologique
CONT

La stratégie indirecte consiste à [...] ne pas affronter l'ennemi dans une épreuve de force directe, mais à ne l'aborder qu'après l'avoir inquiété, surpris et déséquilibré par une approche imprévue, effectuée par des directions détournées.

Spanish

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