Suspect vs. Victim — What's the Difference?

In law enforcement jargon, a suspect is a known person accused or suspected of committing a crime. Police and reporters in the United States often use the word suspect as a jargon when referring to the perpetrator of the offense (perp in dated US slang).

One who is harmed or killed by another, especially by someone committing a criminal or unlawful act

To consider (something) to be true or probable on little or no evidence

A living creature slain and offered as a sacrifice during a religious rite.

To have doubts about (something); distrust

One who is harmed by or made to suffer under a circumstance or condition

To consider (a person) guilty without proof

A person who is tricked, swindled, or taken advantage of

To have suspicion.

One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceived, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular:

One who is suspected, especially of having committed a crime.

One who is harmed or killed by a crime or scam.

Open to or viewed with suspicion

One who is harmed or killed by an accident or illness.

(transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.

One who is harmed or killed as a result of other people's biases, emotions or incompetence, or their own.

(transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).

One who is harmed or killed as a result of a natural or man-made disaster or impersonal condition.

(transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.

A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite.

(intransitive) To have suspicion.

The transfigured body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.

To look up to; to respect.

A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.

A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.

A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.

Viewed with suspicion; suspected.

A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.

(nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.

Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.

Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance

Suspected; distrusted.

A person who is tricked or swindled

Suspicion.

One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; - formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.

To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; - commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.

To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.

To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.

To look up to; to respect.

To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.

Someone who is under suspicion

A person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused

Imagine to be the case or true or probable;

Regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in

Hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty;

Not as expected;