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Item Aspect of the Crime Reflected Intent to traumatize the victim emotionally, maximizing terror, through humiliation, or to create an indelible emotional memory of the event Intent Intent to maximize damage or destruction, by numbers or amount if more than one person is victimized, or by suffering and degree if only one person is victimized Intent Intent to cause permanent physical disfigurement Intent Intent to carry out a crime for the excitement of the criminal act Intent Committing a crime to gain social acceptance or attention, or to show off Intent Choices for carrying out the illegal act were available that did not involve depravity Intent Carrying out a crime to terrorize others Intent Intentionally targeting victims based on prejudice Victimology Targeting victims who are not merely physically vulnerable, but helpless Victimology Exploiting a close and trusting relationship with the victim Victimology Excessive response to trivial irritant; actions clearly disproportionate to the perceived provocation Actions Escalating the depravity; inspiration for more Actions Carrying out an attack in unnecessarily close proximity to the victim Actions Indulgence of actions inconsistent with the social context Actions Unusual quality of suffering of the victim; victim demonstrated panic, terror, and helplessness Actions Prolonging the duration of a victim's physical suffering Actions Unrelenting physical and emotional attack; amount of attacking Actions Exceptional degree of physical harm; amount of damage Actions Influencing criminality in others to avoid prosecution or penalty Actions Influencing depravity in others to destroy more Actions Falsely implicating others, knowingly exposing them to wrongful penalty and the stress of prosecution Attitudes Disregarding the known consequences to the victim Attitudes Experiencing pleasure in response to the criminal actions and their impact Attitudes Projecting responsibility onto the victim; feeling entitlement to carry out the action Attitudes Disrespect for the victim after the fact Attitudes Indifference to the actions and their impact Attitudes
