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A key difference for hate crime offences is the coverage of public order offences in police recorded crime but generally not in the CSEW, as many of these offences will not involve a specifically identifiable victim.
Furthermore, unlike theft or even accounting fraud, which can harm a company's bottom line and stock price, insider trading is a violation in which there is no easily identifiable victim.
Have communicated to a licensed psychotherapist a serious threat of physical violence against a reasonably identifiable victim or victims.
In this case, that individual's omission has a clearly identifiable victim.
This is what social scientists call the "identifiable victim effect"—the tendency to preferentially give to those we can identify with as people, rather than to those we perceive as being anonymous or vague.
An identifiable victim is the extreme, in this sense.
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Rather, choices are made intuitively, based on spontaneous affective reactions". The study cites several well-known examples of large sums of money being donated to help identifiable victims.
Met police believes there are more than 702 identifiable victims of phone hacking.
So for example, there's a study from the early 2000s by behavioral economists Small and Loewenstein that points out that in a very profound sense, identifiable victims produce in us more powerful emotional responses the non-identifiable victims.
Why do identifiable victims elicit such an outpouring of emotion — as well as piles of accompanying cash?
That people would want to give money to identifiable victims like Rokia rather than unnamed famine victims may not seem all that surprising.
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