After which, it became a personal fear of local victimisation. It is unlikely that any of this was deliberate - but it certainly has become very convenient. The major planks of the victim movement cast the victim as passive. Indeed, the charity formed to aid victims is called Victim Support. The recent substitution of survivor for victim as the term used for those who suffer other kinds of abuse came about precisely because of the supine overtones of the definition of the victim as personally fearful.
Fear is a 'seemly' reaction by the passive.
Anger is not. Anger is inconsistent with the way we have chosen to define the victim role. Because it is expedient so to do. Fearful victims passively and gratefully accept such support as is given, and such compensation as the state is prepared, however tardily, to provide. The angry victim is liable to vigilantism, informal punishments of the locally troublesome, and may get uppity in the face of the inefficiencies and absurdities of the criminal justice process.