It is difficult to explain how the need to thoroughly study the problems faced by victims – a need that today may appear obvious, even axiomatic – has escaped the attention of social scientists for more than a century. But, it is not rare for social scientists to miss the obvious. It tended somehow to obliterate the needs of the victim for a very long while, failing to see what, in retrospect, should probably have been evident all along. The society has recently woken up to the needs of the victims and so have the social scientists. Many books are now devoted only to the victims as if the subject that was once invisible has now caught the eyes of all around us and everyone wants to leap in.