Utah legal term
Victim in Utah Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Utah legislative session
In Utah criminal law, “Victim” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Utah criminal code.
What does “Victim” mean in Utah criminal law?
"Victim" means the same as that term is defined in Section 53-10-902. (Utah Code Ann. § 77-11c-101)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Accident involving injury or death
- Assault or threat of violence against health care provider, emergency medical service worker, or health facility employee, owner, or contractor
- Commission of domestic violence in the presence of a child
- Crimes for which probation, suspension of sentence, lower category of offense, or hospitalization may not be granted
- Defacement by graffiti defined
- Negligently operating a vehicle resulting in injury
- Patronizing a child victim of human labor trafficking
- Patronizing a victim of human labor trafficking
- Patronizing a vulnerable adult victim of human labor trafficking
- Property damage resulting in economic interruption
- Sexual extortion
- Sexual solicitation by an actor offering compensation to a child in exchange for sexual activity
Related terms in the same statutes
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