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The distinction I like to make is that a Victim is someone who was targeted by a perpetrator (note Latin etymology-a person sacrificed), whereas a Casualty results from an accident - i.e not targeted (again etymology is an accident):

thus someone can be a Victim of a crime, whether physically hurt or not, but would be a Casualty in, for example, a train crash.

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