The word "perpetrator" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to refer to someone who has committed a crime or an unlawful act. For example: "The police are still searching for the perpetrator of the bank robbery.".
"We will do everything, I repeat, everything to help bring this perpetrator to justice".
They are advocating for a mechanism to end war with more attention to a perpetrator not victims.
It is usually denied by the perpetrator and his victim.
"I fear he will say: 'Now, my brother is not a man.'" It is for this reason that both perpetrator and victim enter a conspiracy of silence and why male survivors often find, once their story is discovered, that they lose the support and comfort of those around them.
Privately, police sources believe the perpetrator was disturbed, perhaps by a passing motorist, and panicked.
"To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of world war two," the prime minister, Ewa Kopacz, said on Sunday.
In some communities every person had reported being affected by child sexual abuse, either as a victim, perpetrator or relative.
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