Or. Rev. Stat. » Oregon Revised Statutes
Oregon Revised Statutes

Or. Rev. Stat. § 131.007 (2026)

“Victim” defined

✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section ORSoregonlegislature.gov JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

      131.007 “Victim” defined. As used in ORS 40.385, 135.230, 147.417, 147.419 and 147.421 and in ORS chapters 136, 137 and 144, except as otherwise specifically provided or unless the context requires otherwise, “victim” means the person or persons who have suffered financial, social, psychological or physical harm as a result of a crime and includes, in the case of a homicide or abuse of corpse in any degree, a member of the immediate family of the decedent and, in the case of a minor victim, the legal guardian of the minor. In no event shall the criminal defendant be considered a victim. [1987 c.2 §17; 1993 c.294 §3; 1997 c.313 §30; 2009 c.178 §32; 2013 c.144 §3]

 

      131.010 [Repealed by 1973 c.836 §358]

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 23 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1989–2022 · leading case: State v. Glaspey, 55 P.3d 562 (Or. Ct. App. 2002).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
State v. Glaspey, 55 P.3d 562 (Or. Ct. App. 2002). · cites it 40× “ORS 131.007, which expressly applies to three entire chapters of the Criminal Code (ORS chapters 136, 137, and 144), and seven specified criminal statutes, [5] defines "victim" to include "persons" who have suffered "social" or "psychological" harm "as a result of a crime.”
State v. Gatewood, 452 P.3d 1046 (Or. Ct. App. 2019). · cites it 15× “123(5)(b) is statu- torily defined by ORS 131.007, which imbues “victim” with a generic, omnibus meaning.”
State v. Sparks, 83 P.3d 304 (Or. 2004). · cites it 2× “150(l)(a) does not permit persons who are not “victims,” as defined in ORS 131.007, 15 to present victim impact evidence.”
State v. Teixeira, 313 P.3d 351 (Or. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 4× “” The state, for its part, contends that the operative construct of “victim” for guidelines enhancement purposes is the omnibus definition of “victim” set out in ORS 131.007: “As used in * * * ORS chapters 136, 137 and 144, except as otherwise specifically provided or unless the…”
State v. Guzek, 906 P.2d 272 (Or. 1995). · cites it 2× “Any doubt in that regard is dispelled by ORS 131.007, which defines the term "victim," as it is used in ORS 137.”
State v. Torres, 277 P.3d 641 (Or. Ct. App. 2012). · cites it 3× “The state argues that the definition of “victim” set out in ORS 131.007 applies to ORS 161.067(3) and, thus, the term “victim” in ORS 161.”
State v. Moncada, 250 P.3d 31 (Or. Ct. App. 2011). · cites it 3× “123, “except as otherwise specifically provided or unless the context requires otherwise, ‘victim’ means the person or persons who have suffered financial, social, psychological or physical harm as a result of a crime * * ORS 131.007 (emphasis added). Here, we have concluded…”
State v. Nix, 283 P.3d 442 (Or. Ct. App. 2012). · cites it 4× “067(2) is limited to “persons,” relying on definitions of “victim” from a dictionary and from ORS 131.007(2) and Article I, section 44(3), of the Oregon Constitution.”
State v. Metz, 887 P.2d 795 (Or. Ct. App. 1994). · cites it 2× “" ORS 131.007. Further, it would be ludicrous to read this statute to mean that if the victim is killed, there is no right under ORS 137.”
State v. Lorenzo, 459 P.3d 268 (Or. Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 3× “For purposes of ORS chapter 136 (governing criminal trials), the legislature has separately defined “victim,” to mean, “the person or persons who have suffered financial, social, psychological or physical harm as a result of a crime and includes, in the case of a homicide or…”
State v. Lykins, 348 P.3d 231 (Or. 2015). “” ORS 131.007. Similarly, for purposes of the restitution statutes, “victim” is defined to include not only the person against whom the defendant committed the criminal offense, but also any person who “has suffered economic damages as a result of the defendant’s criminal…”
State v. Barkley, 817 P.2d 1328 (Or. Ct. App. 1991). · cites it 2× “The first is ORS 131.007, which provides: “As used in ORS 40.”
Show all 23 citing cases →
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 131.007(11) — 1 case
State v. Foster, 225 P.3d 830 (Or. Ct. App. 2010).
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 131.007(2) — 1 case
State v. Nix, 283 P.3d 442 (Or. Ct. App. 2012). “067(2) is limited to “persons,” relying on definitions of “victim” from a dictionary and from ORS 131.007(2) and Article I, section 44(3), of the Oregon Constitution.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.