Children do not have to be direct victims of violence to suffer its effects.

He may himself have been a direct victim, but I doubt that.

Third, crimes in which the cost is borne by an abstract society or group of people, without a clear, direct victim.

These were her final direct victims, although she later claimed another with a mine laid sometime before.

"Most were not direct victims, but certainly they have been terrorized by all this."

It is with all of the direct or indirect victims in mind that we must intervene.

I personally have been a direct victim of this.

The initial report was based on testimony given to the commission by 35,865 people, of which 27,255 were regarded as "direct victims".

But the direct victims are the drug addicts, the judge said, even if they cannot be identified.